Another alternative for exporting a filesystem is to do it via java-base NFS server thread. There are a few I used in the past and there's also the one in HDFS which may be possible to leverage.
Thanks, Roman. On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
