I haven't tried to use Hadoop for serving files like this, but I have used MogileFS, which was built for exactly the application you have in mind. http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/ /Garth
On 8/19/07, Manoj Bist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to serve a large number of audio/video files from web server. > The file size is in the range of few MB for each file. These files > will be generated by a background process. > Each file is identified logically by a 'key' which looks like a url. I > am looking for a caching/storage solution for this. > > 1) Given a key, I should be able to stream the file to the user(web client) > 2) Given a key, I should be able to write the content to the file. > 3) Caching solution should take care of distributing the files across > different machines. > > I am wondering if I can use Hadoop for this? > > Thanx, > MB >
