Re: Best network filesystem for a bleeding edge, pure linux environment?

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:59:38 -0400
shawn wilson <ag4ve.us@gmail.com> wrote:

> btw, i just ran across this (looking at perlbal) but this looks related to
> the 'network file system' conversation.
> http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/

Interesting, but almost certainly not what I need:

> MogileFS is not:
> 
>     * POSIX Compliant -- you don't run regular Unix applications or
> databases against MogileFS. It's meant for archiving write-once files
> and doing only sequential reads. (though you can modify a file by way
> of overwriting it with a new version)
> 
> Notes: o Yes, this means your application has to specifically use a
> MogileFS client library to store and retrieve files. The steps in
> general are 1) talk to a tracker about what you want to put or get, 2)
> read/write to one of the places it told you you could (it'll pick
> storage node(s) for you as part of its load balancing), using HTTP
> GET/PUT

I just want a basic setup that will allow me to use my normal tools to
operate on files stored on a different box.

Celejar
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