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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by vidarh on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:05PM (#11817229)
ZFS still also have the issue of having to perform well. You have a point, but ZFS is still trivial compared to a proper distributed filesystem, and you could achieve the same reliability much easier than ZFS if you sacrificed the performance.
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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by thinkersilver on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @04:34PM (#11817919)
The ClusterHQ guys behind the FlockerHQ found this out the hard way [0]. Initially Flocker was meant to provide a container data migration tool on top of ZFS, now it is a front-end to more established storage systems like Cinder,vSan,EBS,GPD and so on.

[0] https://docs.clusterhq.com/en/latest/faq/#what-happened-to-z...

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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by dap on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @03:15PM (#11817306)
Absolutely -- I didn't mean to imply that ZFS even comes close to solving the distributed parts of the problem, but rather that a distributed storage system does have to address the problems of putting bits on disk.
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