Monday, April 20, 2009

WheelFS

This paper describes wide-area distributed file system.
It follows POSIX and developers could control various trade-offs.

As application runs on multiple datacenter emerges, underlying infrastructure that is easy to use would be crucial. And filesystem is one of the most important systems. WheelFS looks suitable for this end as it offers standard interface and flexiblility as well. More systems supporting multiple datacenter concept will come, such as storage, database, processing, etc...

As there are many trade-off choices and it is application specific in many cases, giving developers an avility to specify cues would be a natural direction to go. However, having too many options often ends up with just using default. Sometimes, provided cues turns out to be inappropriate. It would be great if there is a way to make a smart decision based on profiling or something like that.

4 comments:

  1. Interesting idea about making "a smart decision based on profiling". Can you give some examples?

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  2. Well; nowadays almost all over the world ISP's and other service providers are going to cloud computing based data centers.My friend in US who was looking for chaep and reliable cloud desktop a few days back.Then he found provider to which he is very happy now.He always appriciate their support services.

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  3. Great post Gunho! I have been trying to explain to my friends that Cloud data and Cloud Computing Providers are so amazing, I don't even know what I did before them. Thank you for sharing this with us!

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  4. "WheelFS" like distributed file system is add an advantages over Cloud Computing industry and make people to access their data easily over any network.I think its an amazing one, if it is adopted by cloud computing widely.

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