Hi George, UC Santa Cruz contributed a ;login: article describing replacing HDFS with Ceph. (I was one of the authors.) One of the key architectural advantages of Ceph over HDFS is that Ceph distributes its metadata service over multiple metadata servers.
I hope that helps. --Alex On Aug 25, 2011, at 02:54 , George Kousiouris wrote: > > Hi, > > many thanks!! > > I also found this one, which has some related work also with other efforts, > in case it is helpful for someone else: > https://ritdml.rit.edu/bitstream/handle/1850/13321/ATalwalkarThesis1-2011.pdf?sequence=1 > > > BR, > George > > On 8/25/2011 12:46 PM, Nan Zhu wrote: >> Hope it helps >> >> http://www.springerlink.com/content/h17r882710314147/ >> >> Best, >> >> Nan >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 5:43 PM, George >> Kousiouris<gkous...@mail.ntua.gr>wrote: >> >>> Hi guys, >>> >>> We are currently in the process of writing a paper regarding hadoop and we >>> would like to reference any attempt to remove the single point of failure of >>> the Namenode. We have found in various presentations some efforts (like >>> dividing the namespace between more than one namenodes if i remember >>> correctly) but the search for a concrete paper on the issue came to nothing. >>> >>> Is anyone aware or has participated in such an effort? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> George >>> >>> -- >>> >>> --------------------------- >>> >>> George Kousiouris >>> Electrical and Computer Engineer >>> Division of Communications, >>> Electronics and Information Engineering >>> School of Electrical and Computer Engineering >>> Tel: +30 210 772 2546 >>> Mobile: +30 6939354121 >>> Fax: +30 210 772 2569 >>> Email: gkous...@mail.ntua.gr >>> Site: http://users.ntua.gr/gkousiou/ >>> >>> National Technical University of Athens >>> 9 Heroon Polytechniou str., 157 73 Zografou, Athens, Greece >>> >>> >> > > > -- > > --------------------------- > > George Kousiouris > Electrical and Computer Engineer > Division of Communications, > Electronics and Information Engineering > School of Electrical and Computer Engineering > Tel: +30 210 772 2546 > Mobile: +30 6939354121 > Fax: +30 210 772 2569 > Email: gkous...@mail.ntua.gr > Site: http://users.ntua.gr/gkousiou/ > > National Technical University of Athens > 9 Heroon Polytechniou str., 157 73 Zografou, Athens, Greece >
