* Latchesar Ionkov <lu...@ionkov.net> wrote:

Hi,

> I talked with a guy that's is doing parallel filesystem work, and
> according to him 80% of all filesystem operations when running an HPC
> job are for checkpointing (not that much restart). I just don't see
> how checkpointing can scale knowing how bad the parallel fs are.

We need a clustered venti and an cluster-aware fossil ;-P

I'm currently in the process of designing an clustered storage, 
inspired by venti and git, which also supports removing files,
on-demand sychronization, etc. I'll let you know when I've 
got something to present.


cu
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