Howdy,
Any "brave souls" put FhGFS on a gentoo system? [1] It's a distributed File System and some run it on top of ZFS or EXT4 or BTRFS, with very positive results. It is in the process of going "open source" from what I've read about. It is suppose to be wonderful when compared to Gluster, HDFS or any other "distributed" file system, as I've heard from several sources. There's even a guide on skipping the partitioning of the devices and putting the file system directly "on the device"; even SSD and such. [2] curiously, James [1] http://www.fhgfs.com/cms/download [2] http://www.fhgfs.com/wiki/PartitionAlignment#noparts