Re: Running a server on HDFS

2011-07-12 Thread shanice msuya
I mean I want to place some virtual machines inside Xen server, but I want Xen to run ontop of HDFS not a normal linux file system. But I don't know how to run Xen server in HDFS On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Robert Evans ev...@yahoo-inc.com wrote: What do you mean by run Xen server in

Re: Running a server on HDFS

2011-07-12 Thread Ted Dunning
HDFS is not a normal file system. Instead highly optimized for running map-reduce. As such, it uses replicated storage but imposes a write-once model on files. This probably makes it unsuitable as a primary storage for VM's. What you need is either a conventional networked storage device or if