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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by philips on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @01:15PM (#11816188)
The CoreOS team is excited to make this initial release and start collaborating with folks that want to tackle distributed storage.

tl;dr this is a new OSS distributed storage project that is written in Go and backed by etcd for consistency. The first project built on top of Torus is a network block device that can be mounted into containers for persistent storage. It also includes integrations out of the box for Kubernetes "flex volumes". Get involved! :)

https://github.com/coreos/torus

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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by stevelandis on Thursday June 02, 2016 @01:08AM (#11820503)
Brandon, a few months ago I met you at a meetup and you did not think this problem needed to be solved, and containers were for ephemeral apps... just an AMA request, what changed hearts?
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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by paulsutter on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:12PM (#11817286)
What's the current largest-scale deployment?
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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by lobster_johnson on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @05:54PM (#11818539)
It's described as a prototype, so I'm pretty sure there's no deployment at scale at all.
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