On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:31:56 -0400, Jeff Garzik <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Is there someone taking the point for the chunkd development? > > That's me, for the moment. :) I have some short list todo for Chunk, after which I don't have any particular plans: * Exit if CLD registration fails (maybe!). * Put ourhost into the CLD record, and the port. * Use base directory instead of Cell. * Switch to asprintf for CLD filenames, Geo. So far we managed hacking on same codebase with relative ease. Just make sure to post patches early. > You should read the GoogleFS paper referenced on the chunkd wiki page: > http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs-sosp2003.pdf It describes the purpose > and use of a chunk server, in the context of distributed cloud storage. I think we're at a point where we have our own base of knowledge and evolved an overall architecture to the point we don't have to ape every little detail of Google architecture. In particular I'm going to fight hard any talk of Chunk doing its own replication, for now at least. -- Pete -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe hail-devel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
