On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 13:23:38 +0100, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: > Rupert Pigott wrote: >> I don't know if IBM's GridFS does any better with the latency, but it >> certainly scales a lot better but the barrier for adoption is $$$. It >> costs $$$ and it costs a lot more $$$ to train up and hire the SAs to run >> it. There are other options like AFS too, but people tend to be put off by >> the learning curve and the fact it's an extra rather than something that >> is packaged with the OS. > > Do you happen to have links to GridFS and other systems you mentioned?
IBM call it "GPFS"... Grid Parallel Filesystem http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/clusters/software/gpfs.html Regards, Rupert
