Talk about talks

[Jason Shaw]

I'm absolutely interested in hearing more about Distributed Filesystems.
I've been working with MooseFS (http://www.moosefs.org/) in a testing
environment with the plan being to deploy it live in the next month or so.
I'm not 100% certain that it's the best solution, as our current solution
stores ~2 million small files, but we plan to eventually move larger files
there as well.

I'd love to hear other peoples' experiences with distributed filesystems vs
NFS solutions.

-jason

On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> A couple of ideas for talks came up last night...
>
> There was quite a bit of interest in distributed filesystems.
>
> There seem to be two directions this could go, both legitimate:
>
> i) Clustered filesystems, like GFS / OCFS2
>
> Much as with clustering as a general topic, questions that emerge include:
> - So what?
> - Why would I want this in the first place?  Isn't NFS fine?
> - What would cause me to prefer GFS over OCFS2 or vice-versa?
> - What other options are there?
> - What would cause me to head back to local filesystems or NFS?
>
> ii) Distributed filesystems
> - Why would I want this in the first place?  Isn't NFS fine?
> - Why would I prefer 9p?  Or AFS?  Or InterMezzo?
> - What aspects of these will make me prefer to poke burning needles in
> my eyes, and run back, crying, to NFS?
> - What about NFSv4?
>
> Something that struck me as interesting would be for Drew (perhaps
> along with Myles) to do a talk that might be entitled, "GTALUG
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