Why can't you just have one of those cool firewalls which redirects the http
request to a particular machine depending on the url?

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:45 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:

> The problem with serving large datasets from multiple machines is you
> would then need to have each of the filesystems mounted around to the
> other machines and a nasty web of symlinks to keep it all together and
> served which IMO is unworkable... or ... use something like hdfs ...
> which I don't think is well suited to serving data from. These small
> machines would work well for small datasets, but I believe we need to
> start with some large base datasets that are larger than 4TB in size
> ... thus the need for at least large machine to start with.
>
> Jeff
>
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