On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 8:09 AM, pille <pille+riak-us...@struction.de> wrote: > > > unfortunately our demand for capacity is increasing faster than anticipated, > so waiting for ceph to become stable isn't an option anymore. we don't have > human resources for developing a good fuse bindings ourselves. > > of course, if we don't find anything, we can simply scale out our > active/passive architecture we're running at the moment, but this gets more > and more complicated, the more servers we throw in. > > that's why i'm looking for some beautiful and simple design that minimizes > the possibility of administrative failures.
Probably very off-topic here but we all have to deal with hardware at some level and this is an interesting brute-force approach to capacity: http://blog.backblaze.com/2011/07/20/petabytes-on-a-budget-v2-0revealing-more-secrets/ I believe they only provide an http layer for access, not file system emulation though, and the software isn't open source. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list riak-users@lists.basho.com http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
