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Is the goal to provide POSIX file access as NFS and AFS do? The mention of object storage as a future direction feels like the early "the sky's the limit" eupho
by gsmethells 10y ago
Is the goal to provide POSIX file access as NFS and AFS do? The mention of object storage as a future direction feels like the early "the sky's the limit" euphoria of a new project that has yet to adopt specific end goals.
- barakm 10y agoMore than "sky's the limit" -- early versions had POSIX access, though it was terribly messy. We know the architecture can support it, it's just a matter of learning from the mistakes and building something worth supporting.
- philips 10y agoThe project doesn't provide a POSIX filesystem directly. But, instead provides a block device (think AWS EBS). The initial goals that are in this release: 1. An abstraction for replicated storage between machines in a cluster. 2. A block device "application" on top that an ext4 filesystem could be run on. This is like an EBS. In the future someone might build other applications like "object storage" or filesystems and we would love to get the feedback on the API to do that. But, that isn't in the initial goals and we will be focusing on the storage and block layers for the time being.
- gsmethells 10y agoWill each disk in the system be weighted so that different size disks can be used in the system over time? OpenStack Swift offers this and is useful to not lock-in disk size at design time.
- philips 10y agoYes, see the admin documentation: https://github.com/coreos/torus/blob/master/Documentation/admin-guide.md#modify-my-cluster https://github.com/coreos/torus/blob/master/Documentation/ad...