+1 - from the perspective of the data nodes, dfs is just a block-level store and is thus much more robust and scalable.
On 9/9/08 9:14 AM, "Owen O'Malley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This isn't a very stable direction. You really don't want multiple distinct > methods for storing the metadata, because discrepancies are very bad. High > Availability (HA) is a very important medium term goal for HDFS, but it will > likely be done using multiple NameNodes and ZooKeeper. > > -- Owen
