I've created a Wiki page that summarizes DFS requirements and proposed
changes.
This is a summary of discussions held in this mailing list and
additional internal discussions.
The page is here:
http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-hadoop/DFS_requirements
I see there is an ongoing related discussion in HADOOP-337.
We prioritized our goals as
(1) Reliability (which includes Recoverability and Availability)
(2) Scalability
(3) Functionality
(4) Performance
(5) other
But then gave higher priority to some features like the append
functionality.
Happy holidays to everybody.
--Konstantin Shvachko
