David Masover wrote:
Great -- no load balancing or local caching at all, then?
Its actually pretty fast - almost raw disk speed for small clusters, but not much slower for larger ones - try it out.
Its not as fast as reiser5 may end up, but its here and working right now. It is load balanced, and it does local caching. Use it before you start criticizing it.
It has plenty of its own problems (mainly relating to the DLM), but none of the things you mentioned are a problem.
For the time being, it beats every other non-commercial distributed file system hands down.
I look forward to reiser5, but GFS is just fine for now. LL
