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Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:17:50 -0700
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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Q: moving directories? hard links?
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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? =A0certainly 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