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YES Finally we can start using standard posix semantics for things. Yes people might say its primitive, but currently all I can see is people trying to re-cre
by KaiserPro 10y ago
YES
Finally we can start using standard posix semantics for things.
Yes people might say its primitive, but currently all I can see is people trying to re-create shared files systems over protocols not designed for it cough cough HTTP
Finally I can have a shared home, with a shared environment.
A single readonly binary source (great for docker by the way.) also great for ensuring one version of scripts, without having to ansible everything.
- jdub 10y agoCongratulations, you've won a single point of failure!
- willejs 10y agoHAHAHA. YES! So much this. THere are legit use cases for this, but there are many use cases that will cause you much pain.
- omni 10y agoI suspect you're being downvoted because you've described every piece of technology ever created.
- MOARDONGZPLZ 10y agoOr the "HAHAHA. YES! So much this." part. Though I can't down vote so I wouldn't know.
- willejs 10y agoI just think that some people are getting excited about reviving the SAN. I don't think everyone realises or is familiar with the pain running NFS on distributed or non distributed infrastructure can cause, when used for the wrong use cases... Yes my comment was a bit of a joke too.
- illumin8 10y agoIt's a single point of failure that's highly available across multiple availability zones. I'm not sure I would even call it a single point of failure when it's running in multiple datacenters. If you need geo-redundancy, rsync it to another region nightly.
- merpnderp 10y agoAt 10x the price for S3.
- acdha 10y agoThat's not a valid comparison for many applications: if you need POSIX filesystem semantics, it doesn't matter how much S3 costs because it cannot do the job, any more than you'd say S3 costs more than a USB key.
- KaiserPro 10y agoYou are correct. However its not for the same things. S3 is high latency, HTTP semantics, no locking mechanism. EFS is low latency, high throughput shared file system with standard posix interface. everything can write to standard files. Not many things can write using S3 effectively.
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