Hadoop is using Fuse to expose HDFS into native Linux environment. It works, I guess, although I don't know how widely it is used. The whole thing is about 4KLOC + 7KLOC of libhdfs (all in C). While not overly terrible, it is a significant undertaking indeed.
Having FUSE connector to IGFS is an interesting proposition. I wonder if the usecases discussed in the thread were covered by simply having a secondary filesystem configured? Say, being able to sit on top of CEPH would solve all these needs as CEPH is a kernel-level filesystem. As such, one can work with it the same way as with any other linux FS. Thoughts? Cos On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:58PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: > I have noticed a Jira filed to make IGFS mountable: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IGNITE-854 > > The integration proposed is via Fuse framework which would allow us mount > IGFS just like a regular Linux file system. > > This seems like a pretty big undertaking. Even though it sounds pretty cool > in theory, it would be interesting to find out form the community if > everyone else finds it useful and maybe suggest some potential use cases > for it. > > Also, seems like Fuse framework is not being actively developed. Last > release came out in July, 2013. How safe is it to use this framework? > > D.
