Open source storage

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800 (PST), S
wrote:

On Feb 21, 7:55 pm, "Gary R. Schmidt" wrote:
S wrote:

[SNIP]

For a change, I agree somewhat with your initial analogy. Using XFS is
like having sex without a condom, its great, but very unsafe if you
don't know what you're doing. Not something I'd use in an enterprise
scenario.

Catch up with the real world - XFS has been in use in production sites
for quite a few years now, not just the various super-computer sites
that run SGI's Altix systems, but several others, lots of geo and oil
stuff, not to mention the various media houses using CXFS, and, no
doubt, the various mil and gov sites that SGI can't talk about.


Not sure if mil/gov sites qualify as real world. Oil and Gas/Media
were SGI's mainstay back in the day, so it wouldn't surprise me that
they went with XFS on Linux now. To me real world is a bank, an
Internet company, or a CAD engineering firm.

Oil&Gas and Media are not as real world as Internet companies?
Oil&Gas have a large amount of money, more than most banks, relying on
a stable and fast file system.
With few exceptions, like Amazon and Google, Internet companies have
minimal money relying on their file systems.

Personally I don't care about most open source storage or file
systems. WAFL and QFS are my file systems of choice and will stay
that way from what I can see for a very long time.
I like to look and test but realistically I've not seen anything to
make me want to switch.

~F

On Feb 29, 4:43 pm, Faeandar wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:38:10 -0800 (PST), S



wrote:
On Feb 21, 7:55 pm, "Gary R. Schmidt" wrote:
S wrote:

[SNIP]

For a change, I agree somewhat with your initial analogy. Using XFS is
like having sex without a condom, its great, but very unsafe if you
don't know what you're doing. Not something I'd use in an enterprise
scenario.

Catch up with the real world - XFS has been in use in production sites
for quite a few years now, not just the various super-computer sites
that run SGI's Altix systems, but several others, lots of geo and oil
stuff, not to mention the various media houses using CXFS, and, no
doubt, the various mil and gov sites that SGI can't talk about.

Not sure if mil/gov sites qualify as real world. Oil and Gas/Media
were SGI's mainstay back in the day, so it wouldn't surprise me that
they went with XFS on Linux now. To me real world is a bank, an
Internet company, or a CAD engineering firm.

Oil&Gas and Media are not as real world as Internet companies?
Oil&Gas have a large amount of money, more than most banks, relying on
a stable and fast file system.

My point was that their requirements are very specific to their
industry. If my business depended on being able to process large
seismic or media files, all other flaws become minor irritants.

With few exceptions, like Amazon and Google, Internet companies have
minimal money relying on their file systems.

The big ones do actually. Yahoo, all the photo storage companies,
Facebook.

Personally I don't care about most open source storage or file
systems. WAFL and QFS are my file systems of choice and will stay
that way from what I can see for a very long time.
I like to look and test but realistically I've not seen anything to
make me want to switch.

Cool..what would make you want to switch?

S


~F