FYI - I tried to use the AppendOnlyStreamWriter and AppendOnlyStreamReader to demonstrate the idea : https://github.com/apache/incubator-distributedlog/pulls/43 Let me know if this is a good direction to go after.
- Gerrit On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:21 AM, Gerrit Sundaram <gerritsunda...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi distributedlog folks, > > I am new to this community. I am wondering is there anyone tried to build > a file system over replicated logs. There are a lot of similarities between > a filesystem file and a replicated log. You can use files to build > replicated log or use replicated logs to build a filesystem. > > I took at the code repo and found there are two files > 'AppendOnlyStreamReader' and 'AppendOnlyStreamWriter'. They seem to > implement file I/O related API. Did you guys attempt to provide filesystem > API over distributedlog? > > I am wondering if it is possible to build a filesystem over > distributedlog. Would this be an interesting topic to this project and the > community? I have two reasons for that > - I can leverage the good stuffs like parallel replication, low latency > for better performance? > - DL uses zookeeper for metadata storage. ZooKeeper has pretty nice > filesystem-like interface. So it would be a nice fit. > > - Gerrit > > > > >
