It's not, currently, but I'm happy to answer questions about its architecture.
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:35, Norman Maurer <norman.mau...@googlemail.com> wrote: > May I ask if its opensource by any chance ? > > bye > norman > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2011 schrieb David Strauss <da...@davidstrauss.net>: >> I'm not sure HDFS has the right properties for a media-storage file >> system. We have, however, built a WebDAV server on top of Cassandra >> that avoids any pretension of being a general-purpose, POSIX-compliant >> file system. We mount it on our servers using davfs2, which is also >> nice for a few reasons: >> >> * We can use standard HTTP load-balancing and dead host avoidance >> strategies with WebDAV. >> * Encrypting access and authenticating clients with PKI/HTTPS works >> seamlessly. >> * WebDAV + davfs2 is etag-header aware, allowing clients to >> efficiently validate cached items. >> * HTTP is browser and CDN/reverse proxy cache friendly for >> distributing content to people who don't need to mount the file >> system. >> * We could extend the server's support to allow connections from a >> broad variety of interactive desktop clients. >> >> On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 13:11, Joseph Stein <crypt...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hey folks, I am going to start prototyping our media tier using cassandra as >>> a file system (meaning upload video/audio/images to web server save in >>> cassandra and then streaming them out) >>> Has anyone done this before? >>> I was thinking brisk's CassandraFS might be a fantastic implementation for >>> this but then I feel that I need to run another/different Cassandra cluster >>> outside of what our ops folks do with Apache Cassandra 0.8.X >>> Am I best to just compress files uploaded to the web server and then start >>> chunking and saving chunks in rows and columns so the mem issue does not >>> smack me in the face? And use our existing cluster and build it out >>> accordingly? >>> I am sure our ops people would like the command line aspect of CassandraFS >>> but looking for something that makes the most sense all around. >>> It seems to me there is a REALLY great thing in CassandraFS and would love >>> to see it as part of 1.0 =8^) or at a minimum some streamlined >>> implementation to-do the same thing. >>> If comparing to HDFS that is part of Hadoop project even though Cloudera has >>> a distribution of Hadoop :) maybe that can work here too _fingers_crosed_ >>> (or mongodb->gridfs) >>> happy to help as I am moving down this road in general >>> Thanks! >>> >>> /* >>> Joe Stein >>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/charmalloc >>> Twitter: @allthingshadoop >>> */ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> David Strauss >> | da...@davidstrauss.net >> | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile] >> > -- David Strauss | da...@davidstrauss.net | +1 512 577 5827 [mobile]
