[Swift-devel] Swift-issues (PBS+NFS Cluster)

[foster at anl.gov]

The reason for wanting to use S3 is that one pays to move data to/from  
amazon. So, we want to allow analysis of data that sits on S3, and  
puts it's output on s3


Ian -- from mobile

On May 13, 2009, at 12:25 PM, Ben Clifford <benc at hawaga.org.uk> wrote:

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> On Wed, 13 May 2009, Ben Clifford wrote:
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>>> Since each Amazon virtual node only has limited storage  
>>> space( Small instance
>>> for 1.7GB, Large Instance for 7.5GB), we may need to use  
>>> EBS(Elastic Block
>>> Store) to storage temp files created by swift. The EBS behaved  
>>> like a hard
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> For many applications, 1.7G is a very large amount of data.
>
> 7.5G of storage for your shared filesystem and 1.7G for worker node
> temporary files seems like a lot to me.
>
> So I think its important to clarify: do you want to use s3 because you
> think it solves a storage problem, and if so, does that problem really
> exist now? or do you want to use s3 because it is an interesting  
> thing to
> play with? (either way is fine, but I think it is important to  
> clarify)
>
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