> I do agree that, a lot of my time can be taken up with explaining why I don't want to replace a file server with a Cassandra cluster(yes really). Adding the

> I do agree that, a lot of my time can be taken up with explaining why I don't want to replace a file server with a Cassandra cluster(yes really). Adding the complexity of a DBMS (and a non-standard one at that) on top of a distributed system seems excessive, but I'd believe it. > GPFS I've never been a strong advocate for proprietary/enterprise solutions, as that's an easy way to spend more than a cloud provider would cost. Since storage (hardware) is the worst offender for markups, I'm extra-sensitive in that area. > However its never as simple as that, as you know. Indeed, which is why I suggested it would require innovation. For any non-trivial case, the app would need to be aware, and it may as well do all that work.