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aren't you comparing apples to oranges? S3 is an object store (and non POSIX.. Also only eventually consistent).. GlusterFS is neither of those. They simply sol
by spydum 11y ago
aren't you comparing apples to oranges? S3 is an object store (and non POSIX.. Also only eventually consistent).. GlusterFS is neither of those. They simply solve different problem spaces
- ej_campbell 11y agoParent is saying that it might be simpler for many applications to forgo the need for a file system abstraction and just use S3's more limited API directly. That way, you don't get bit by thorny edge cases like "ls" of 10K files taking orders of magnitude more time than you'd expect give you're used to the speed of a local disk.