On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Konstantin Boudnik <c...@apache.org> 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. > Hm... Is Hadoop using Fuse for only HDFS, or for any file system that implements FileSystem interface? If it is the latter, then IGFS fits right in into that architecture. > > 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. >
