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A comment on Linux w/ reiserfs 3.x vs a SUN SAN 7410 running solaris and ZFS.

Re:Linux w/ reiserfs 3.x vs a SUN SAN 7410 running solaris a... by mey on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @07:04PM (#893561)
Is a "file system" the best design for this?

Not sure of a better general solution, but approaches like BigTable/GFS and SimpleDB come to mind.

Conversely if ZFS is supposed to scale to petabyte loads, what configuration do they expect that data to be in?

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Re:Linux w/ reiserfs 3.x vs a SUN SAN 7410 running solaris a... by liuliu on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @07:08PM (#893567)
BigTable is for structure data. I think the best open-source software for this problem is Haystack from Facebook. It solves the problem by creating really big file (1G size), in that case, you don't have to bother with filesystem.
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Re:Linux w/ reiserfs 3.x vs a SUN SAN 7410 running solaris a... by pvg on Tuesday October 20, 2009 @07:45PM (#893621)
Haystack is not open-source software.
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