I would like to know if anyone is using HDFS as a general purpose file system (not for MapReduce). If so, how good is HDFS to handle lots of small files? I'm considering HDFS as an alternative to MogileFS, a big file system with basically small files for a web application (the file system will store html, images, videos, etc) where high availability is essential. The documentation and wiki shows HDFS as a file system to support MapReduce of big data volume, but not necessarily big files.
[]'s Lucindo
