Sometimes the client tells you to put the square peg in the round hole, no matter how much you might tell them it doesn't really fit...
anyway, Lustre looks interesting, we'll take a look at it. we may have more flexibility to break out some nodes in the cluster for just the FS anyway.... Ananth T Sarathy On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Allen Wittenauer <[email protected]>wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2010, at 1:51 PM, Ananth Sarathy wrote: > > > Yea I know I can use a nas or San. I am not really asking about this as a > > use case on what the best way way to do it is but rather what the best > way > > to do use hdfs is it was decided that hdfs WAS the fileasystem you were > > going to use to serve lots of small files. > > In other words, "What is the best way to make this square peg fit in this > round hole?" > > You should probably be looking at something like Lustre or ceph.
