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

[Allan Espinosa]

Unless the filesystem is easy to deploy (like in the userspace level).
Parrot [1] supports mounting remote gridftp, http and chirp (their own
fs).  I tested this in the early part of deploying the CIO system.

[1] http://www.cse.nd.edu/~ccl/software/parrot/

On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 05:29:28PM -0600, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 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.