On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:17:50 PDT ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM, erik quanstrom > <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: > >> IIRC companies such as Panasas separate file names and other > >> metadata from file storage. One way to get a single FS > >> namespace that spans multiple disks or nodes for increasing > >> data redundancy, file size beyond the largest disk size, > >> throughput (and yes, complexity). > > > > that certainly does seem like the hard way to do things. > > why should the structure of the data depend on where it's > > located? =A0certainly ken's fs doesn't change the format of > > the worm if you concatinate several devices for the worm > > or use just one. > > This would be a long discussion :-) > > best bet is to read Gibson's stuff.
Indeed. On Isilon's website we find: * Up to 10.4 petabytes and up to 85 GBps of throughput and up to 1.4 million IOPS in a single file system. * Add capacity and/or performance within 60 seconds. I don't know how Isilon does this but think of how one would build a FS that can scale to multi perabyte files requiring multi gigabyte/sec bandwidth and ability to add storage as needed. Think oil companies and movie studios!
