On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/5/1 Lukasz Szybalski <[email protected]>: >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Rufus Pollock <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> 2009/4/28 Lukasz Szybalski <[email protected]>: > [...] > >> 1. sector is for highly "read" intensive apps, optimized for extremely >> fast read. > > OK. I feel a feature-grid coming on :) For us, I guess that is not > ultra-high priority. > >> 2. kfs(kosmos) seems to be similar to google file system, where you >> have main server (metaserver), and run chunk servers (how much space >> you have available) , data gets divided into 64mb and send to chunk >> servers. You always have 3 copies of the chunk. The filesystem (at >> metaserver) seems like one big file server. (+python bindings) > > OK. Useful info.
What is the structure of the tahoe fs? how is it different from kfs? Thanks, Lucas > > At the moment Allmydata-Tahoe is looking pretty promising. We've > started a basic grid with info here: > > <http://grid.okfn.org/> > > Next step is to create a nice filesystem like web frontend on top of > the basic web-api they provide. > > We also need to grow the grid so if anyone's got a few gigs of spare > server capacity it would be great if they could contribute a node > (using the debian/ubuntu packages installing tahoe turns out to be > pretty painless ...). > > Regards, > > Rufus > > PS: all code and content done so far is in the our hg repo at > http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/okfncc/ > -- How to create python package? http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/PythonPaste DataHub - create a package that gets, parses, loads, visualizes data http://lucasmanual.com/mywiki/DataHub _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
