On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:41 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@labs.coraid.com> wrote: >> IIRC companies such as Panasas separate file names and other >> metadata from file storage. One way to get a single FS >> namespace that spans multiple disks or nodes for increasing >> data redundancy, file size beyond the largest disk size, >> throughput (and yes, complexity). > > that certainly does seem like the hard way to do things. > why should the structure of the data depend on where it's > located? certainly ken's fs doesn't change the format of > the worm if you concatinate several devices for the worm > or use just one.
This would be a long discussion :-) best bet is to read Gibson's stuff. ron
