Rich Freeman <rich0 <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> > Rich0 said he'd modify the handbook into an experimental prose that > > leads to a raid-1 btrfs baseline system, if enough folks liked the ideas. > Just to clarify - I intend to do it, full stop. I don't want to > generate some kind of "please do it" campaign - I was just saying that > there seems to be interest so it is worth doing. Sorry for putting you on the spot. But, there is a multitude of good things that will flow out of your efforts, Blueness efforts and those of muffblaster and many more. There are many needs, all inter-related, imho. > I've just been travelling for the last few days. There really > shouldn't be too much to this. No worries! I'll predict that this (raid1/btrfs) is going to be 'massively successful' as an addition to the handbook, for a wide variety of reasons. Btrfs on top of cephfs is the best FOSS distributed file system currently available in open source form. Commercially supported DFS, like BeeGFS have one foot in the opensource world (client side) but I'm not sure the rest of the code is 'palatable' to the FOSS world and gentoo devs. [1] This site has several interesting documents on beeGFS; as it is being utilized by some very aggressive folks when it comes to HPC. It's worth watching. Btrfs/Cephfs gets the rank and file gentoo community into Distributed File Systems; and that's a very good idea, imho. This combo supports RDMA (RoCE) [2] Cephfs + btrfs have both been aggressively supported on arm8v. So both embedded gentoo on arm8v and servers based on chips like the AMD arm64 server chipsets are all set to 'rock and roll' as soon as these devices start shipping in quantity (~christmas 2015). THANKS Rich! James [1] http://www.beegfs.com/content/news/ Introduction_to_BEEFGS_by_ThinkParQ.pdf [2] http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/will-rdma-over-ethernet-eclipse-infiniband/a/d-id/1316950
