Two reasons:
Do a single node test of large file read/write without having to purchase
additional hard rives at the moment.
Benefit from I/O Panasas delivers that I can't get from local drives...
Keeping the data local, for easier loading.
On 5/25/10 11:58 AM, "Ryan King" wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Fernanda Foertter
> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> So we have Panasas (http://www.panasas.com), and want to avoid local drives.
>> Because panasas has its own redundancy and cache, Can I set RF=1? If so,
>> can you think of any reason why we shouldn¹t use panasas?
>
> I don't see why you'd us panasas and cassandra together. They take
> very different approaches to the problem.
>
> -ryan
