On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:49PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan wrote: > 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. > > > > 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.
I think it is HDFS specific, but might be wrong on this account. > > 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. > >
