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No disclosure of inspiration from Manta https://github.com/joyent/manta https://github.com/joyent/manta? Also, why yet another DFS that makes excuses for shitt
by kev009 12y ago
No disclosure of inspiration from Manta https://github.com/joyent/manta https://github.com/joyent/manta?
Also, why yet another DFS that makes excuses for shitty local filesystems instead of leveraging ZFS? Use ZFS as the base for integrity, snapshots, send/receive and make a small service on top for managing cluster metadata.
- jdoliner 12y agoHi, JD @ Pachyderm here. We think Manta is pretty cool but it wasn't actually an inspiration for us. I'm not sure I fully understand your criticism of the filesystem. Pfs was actually initially conceived as almost exactly what you're describing, a small service on top of ZFS. But we realized early on that ZFS was going to be a pain because of its patent status so we used btrfs instead. I think btrfs is worse than ZFS but I'm not sure I'd call it a shitty local filesystem.