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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:17:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=v5XSLoMBWO2uOxq1HsS-kF4gE_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9482032322d5daaadceace1f6875dad3@coraid.com>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM, erik quanstrom
<quanstro@labs.coraid.com> wrote:
>> 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.

This would be a long discussion :-)

best bet is to read Gibson's stuff.

ron



  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 23:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-16  2:36 smiley
2011-04-16  2:40 ` Jacob Todd
2011-04-16  4:22 ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 16:53   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 17:33   ` smiley
2011-04-16 17:51     ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-21 15:32       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:43         ` ron minnich
2011-04-16 18:22     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 15:44       ` smiley
2011-04-21 15:49         ` ron minnich
2011-04-21 16:54         ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 20:17           ` Richard Miller
2011-04-21 21:10             ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 22:41               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-21 23:17                 ` ron minnich [this message]
2011-04-21 23:54                   ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-21 23:55                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  0:01                     ` ron minnich
2011-04-22  0:04                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22  8:03                 ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-22  8:27                   ` dexen deVries
2011-04-22 13:05                   ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-22 17:47                     ` Bakul Shah
2011-04-24 18:58                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-16 18:03   ` Richard Miller
2011-04-16 18:17     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2011-04-16 18:56       ` Rob Pike
2011-04-18  9:08         ` Aharon Robbins
2011-04-18 12:41           ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 12:59             ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-18 13:00               ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-18 13:11                 ` Lucio De Re
2011-04-23  3:48                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-04-21  9:22       ` Balwinder S Dheeman
2011-04-16 16:58 ` erik quanstrom
2011-04-19 15:36 ` Charles Forsyth

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