Hi, > I have been attracted by the Hadoop project while looking for a solution > for my application. > Basically, I have an application hosting user generated content (images, > sounds, videos) and I would like to have this available at all time for > all my servers. > Servers will basically add new content, user can manipulate the existing > content, make compositions etc etc ... > > We have a few servers (2 for now) dedicated to hosting content, and > right now, they are connected via sshfs on some folders, in order to > shorten the transfert time between these content servers and the > application servers. > > Would the Hadoop filesystem be usefull in my case, is it worth digging > into it.
I guess not, your best choice would be something like MogileFS. HDFS is a filesystem optimized for distributed calculations, and thus it works best with big files (comparable to the size of block, like 64MB). Hosting a lots of smaller files would be an overkill. -- WBR, Mikhail Yakshin
