It's still maintained: https://github.com/mogilefs/ . I don't have a good sense of the community, though we did use it at my last job.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:44 PM, mcasandra <mohitanch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well it's not just metadata that I need to store but also Username, > profiles, > followers etc. What I meant was store the location of the images along with > other information that I described above. And when user queries them then > pull it from the file sytem. > > Most of the high volume sites (facebook, flickr, Digg etc.) currently seem > to be storing location/URI in the DB and actual blobs(images/docs) etc. on > the distributed file system. Some have written on their own and some are > using MogileFS, Lustre etc. > > Can't use S3 since the requirement is to keep everything within the network > so that it's secure and under control. > > Initially I thought Cassandra could be used for both row data and as well > as > large files. But from what I've read and suggestions that I've got it looks > like I need to look at distributed file system which is fault taulrent and > also scales well. After reading online I can come up with only few options > like lustre, glusterfs and mogileFS to store large files. As you mentioned > lustreFS needs kernel tweaking/volume creation etc. Still trying to read > more about glusterFS. And mogileFS last updated date on the site is back in > 2010 so not sure if it's still widely supported (in case of issues :)). > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://cassandra-user-incubator-apache-org.3065146.n2.nabble.com/Storing-photos-images-docs-etc-tp6078278p6086307.html > Sent from the cassandra-u...@incubator.apache.org mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
