I doubt If I understood you correctly, but if so, there is a previous thread to better understand what hadoop is intended to be, and what disadvantages it has: http://www.nabble.com/Using-HDFS-to-serve-www-requests-td22725659.html
2009/4/2 Rasit OZDAS <rasitoz...@gmail.com> > > If performance is important to you, Look at the quote from a previous thread: > > "HDFS is a file system for distributed storage typically for distributed > computing scenerio over hadoop. For office purpose you will require a SAN > (Storage Area Network) - an architecture to attach remote computer storage > devices to servers in such a way that, to the operating system, the devices > appear as locally attached. Or you can even go for AmazonS3, if the data is > really authentic. For opensource solution related to SAN, you can go with > any of the linux server distributions (eg. RHEL, SuSE) or Solaris (ZFS + > zones) or perhaps best plug-n-play solution (non-open-source) would be a Mac > Server + XSan." > > --nitesh > > Besides, I wouldn't use HDFS for this purpose. > > Rasit -- M. Raşit ÖZDAŞ
