[Swift-devel] several alternatives to design the data management system for Swift on SuperComputers

[Mihael Hategan]

On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:45 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:

> Do you mean building some general purpose posix shared file system? If so, 
> this seems quite hard, and seems directly in competition with PVFS and 
> GPFS, a competition which you are pretty much guaranteed to lose.

I thought about that a bit. Perhaps it's not such a bad idea in
principle. On such large yet tightly coupled systems it may be
interesting to explore a p2p filesystem.