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From: Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] ceph
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> Hadoop and GFS are good examples and they work great for the
> single distributed application that is *written* with them
> in mind.
>
> Unfortunately, I can not stretch my imagination hard enough
> to see them as general purpose filesystems backing up data
> for gazillions of non-cooperative applications. The sort
> of thing NFS and AFS were built to accomplish.

I *think* the folks at google also use GFS for shared $HOME
(ie. to stash files they want to share with others).  I
could be wrong.

> Roman.

Tim Newsham
http://www.thenewsh.com/~newsham/