HDFS can be mounted: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MountableHDFS
Another project worth trying i think is : http://code.google.com/p/kosmosfs/ Paolo On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Jeppe Toustrup <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 22:04, Geoff Nordli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I am looking for a fault-tolerant distributed file system to store > >> medium sized files (150MB-4GB) which can scale across 100s of servers > >> and keep N replicas of each file. > > > > You say you need a file system, does that have to be a POSIX > > compatible file system (ie. mountable) or do you just need to store > > some files? > > If you just need to store some files, you could have a look at Hadoop > > or more specifically HDFS (Hadoop Distributed File System), which > > consists of java daemons which can synchronize files around for you > > and manage all the redundancy. Libraries exists for all kinds of > > languages to hook into the system, so there should be something which > > could fit into your needs. > > > > It needs to be a mountable file system. > > thanks, > > Geoff > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
