On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > Joerg Jaspert: > <SNIP> >> The only trouble this setup has is that you have a pretty huge expensive >> machine always on and running, but not actually doing stuff for >> 99.999999999999% of the time. > </SNIP> > > Hadoop is now in Debian: http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/hadoop.html > Hadoop is an Open Source implementation of Google's File System, MapReduce and > BigTable (HBase, not yet packaged). > > The idea behind Google's infrastructure and therefor Hadoop is: Have many > cheap comodity servers that together form a powerful cluster. Each node of the > cluster is redundant and can be replaced without downtime. > > I believe, but can't know for sure, that everything what FTP-Master does, > could be implemented on top of hadoop. > However it means for sure a lot of work and many hardcore sysadmins will feel > very uncomfortable to use Java, the language Hadoop is written in.
Isn't there /some/ python/jython support ? Would you co-mentor such a project as part of a Summer of Code project ? Do you know someone who would ? It need not be ftpmaster. There are probably other critical debian infrastructure which could use this. > I'm planning to give a presentation of hadoop at the DebConf in Bosnia and > maybe then we may discuss, if hadoop should have a place in Debian's > infrastructure. - For now I'm happy, if somebody became curious. :-) > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadoop > > Best regards, > > Thomas Koch, http://www.koch.ro Cheers Arthur -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/g2vc09ddae71003310920icba0397au58fa97f4ebfb7...@mail.gmail.com
