Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS

Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by betawaffle on Thursday June 02, 2016 @08:42AM (#11821967)

We had a POSIX interface early on (via FUSE), but decided to expose a a block storage interface first instead. This is not a "filesystem", it's a storage abstraction, and we've spent more than 6 months on it. Seems like a lot of folks are quickly jumping to conclusions, which is expected from "the internet", but I would have hoped for better from HN.

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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by nwmcsween on Thursday June 02, 2016 @11:22PM (#11828091)

6 months is overnight in terms of a filesystem, there are literally millions of dollars of work that was done with glusterfs and probably a magnitude less man hours. I understand coreos wants.to innovate but what does torus bring to the table besides negatives and NIH?

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Re:Torus: A distributed storage system by CoreOS by zzzcpan on Thursday June 02, 2016 @11:06AM (#11823038)

> but I would have hoped for better from HN

Don't worry about it. Some guys just mistake their experience with traditional storage systems as meaningful here.

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