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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@labs.coraid.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:41:25 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
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> IIRC companies such as Panasas separate file names and other
> metadata from file storage. One way to get a single FS
> namespace that spans multiple disks or nodes for increasing
> data redundancy, file size beyond the largest disk size,
> throughput (and yes, complexity).

that certainly does seem like the hard way to do things.
why should the structure of the data depend on where it's
located?  certainly ken's fs doesn't change the format of
the worm if you concatinate several devices for the worm
or use just one.

- erik