cuno

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   by cuno 3y ago

   Hi, author here. Yes, we've had to do a lot of things to deal with object storage latency. Since cunoFS is running inside a given process itself, it has greater visibility into what actions it can take and is likely to take. This mea
2. 32.▲
   by cuno 3y ago

   Hi, similar to nvm0n2 who already commented below, object storage systems often directly write to block storage rather than through a VFS. While minio, for example, can run on top of a VFS, even they say you shouldn't be - you should
3. 33.▲
   by cuno 3y ago

   Hi, author here. The problem is that it's actually really hard to write you own specialized glue layer,and so most developers who do that have poor implementations with low performance and/or incompatibilities with non-AWS solutio
4. 34.▲
   by cuno 3y ago

   Hi, author here. Yes, we're a startup. With cunoFS, we've made it possible to leverage the lower cost and higher throughput of object storage like S3, and make it work transparently with functions like e.g. mmap(), chmod(), execve
5. 35.▲
   by cuno 3y ago

   Hi, author here. Yes, you're right—there's POSIX somewhere along the line. Object storage is available on-cloud but it's also frequently used on-prem (e.g. within many companies, universities, research labs, etc). This object
6. 36.▲
   by cuno 4y ago

   Some of these predictions are already happening so maybe "prediction" is the wrong word? Traditional computation has for a long time assumed that "computation" is expensive and "communication" between logic com