danga.com— MogileFS is an open source distributed filesystem. Its feature set includes automatic file replication, no single point of failure, works over http and nfs, and it's free.
Oct 19, 2005View in Crawl 4
So this isnt exactly a "file system" like FAT32, WinFS, or MacOSExtended....More of a virtual RAID?A simple way of setting up a networked, multi-machine server...Sober.... but hungry, time for breakfast.
Seems like they've put a fair bit of design into this, but it's not really as full featured as it could be. It's mostly just a replicating file system. Good for redundancy, but nothing else. I also don't like that clients need to use a special library to work with it, although I guess using fuse would make that transparent, wouldn't it?
This sounds pretty cool. A quick cursory examination to both seems that they are not the same thing. MogileFS is different than AFS in that it's primary intention seems to be to provide some sort of RAID functionality along with the distributed file aspect.Too bad MogileFS seems like it's written in Perl.
From TFA, MogileFS is for *archiving* files that are *write-only*, and read back sequentially.This is not as general purpose as the filesystem you use everyday. But it has definite uses.Imagine websites (even existing websites) that allow people to upload files (pictures, videos, etc.) and then provides a link so that they can be downloaded. The distributed nature of MogileFS would allow downloading from multiple data centers.Imagine a search engine, like Google, that crawls the net, keeping archives of every page or resource it encounters. This is another write-only file, that is sequentually read-back.This even has applications for sites like Wikipedia. You interact with a particular server, editing an article. Once complete, the file is archived to MogileFS, at which point it is now available to be served. Of course, you can immediately edit the article again, interacting with a single host, editing the article from a file on a local conventional filesystem of that host. The new version of the article is archived, and the old file deleted from MogileFS.(TFA didn't say, but presumably MogileFS has a "delete" operation.)A filesystem like this, even though not a replacement for a general purpose filesystem, has MANY potential applications.
xionerOct 23, 2005
So this isnt exactly a "file system" like FAT32, WinFS, or MacOSExtended....More of a virtual RAID?A simple way of setting up a networked, multi-machine server...Sober.... but hungry, time for breakfast.
itzacOct 23, 2005
Seems like they've put a fair bit of design into this, but it's not really as full featured as it could be. It's mostly just a replicating file system. Good for redundancy, but nothing else. I also don't like that clients need to use a special library to work with it, although I guess using fuse would make that transparent, wouldn't it?
Closed AccountOct 23, 2005
Scotty voted as spam. I'm gonna create like 5 accounts just to push spammers off of the front page as quickly as possible.
dannybOct 23, 2005
"and it's free."Wow, really? I'm so glad, I'm used to spending tons of money to use the filesystem of my choice.
Closed AccountOct 23, 2005
nice... do i have a use for it... not really<a class="user" href="http://www.geek2us.net/bogeydope/">http://www.geek2us.net/bogeydope/</a>
Closed AccountOct 23, 2005
now for something interesting<a class="user" href="http://www.geek2us.net/bogeydope/">http://www.geek2us.net/bogeydope/</a>
crazenOct 24, 2005
This sounds pretty cool. A quick cursory examination to both seems that they are not the same thing. MogileFS is different than AFS in that it's primary intention seems to be to provide some sort of RAID functionality along with the distributed file aspect.Too bad MogileFS seems like it's written in Perl.
dickbreathOct 24, 2005
From TFA, MogileFS is for *archiving* files that are *write-only*, and read back sequentially.This is not as general purpose as the filesystem you use everyday. But it has definite uses.Imagine websites (even existing websites) that allow people to upload files (pictures, videos, etc.) and then provides a link so that they can be downloaded. The distributed nature of MogileFS would allow downloading from multiple data centers.Imagine a search engine, like Google, that crawls the net, keeping archives of every page or resource it encounters. This is another write-only file, that is sequentually read-back.This even has applications for sites like Wikipedia. You interact with a particular server, editing an article. Once complete, the file is archived to MogileFS, at which point it is now available to be served. Of course, you can immediately edit the article again, interacting with a single host, editing the article from a file on a local conventional filesystem of that host. The new version of the article is archived, and the old file deleted from MogileFS.(TFA didn't say, but presumably MogileFS has a "delete" operation.)A filesystem like this, even though not a replacement for a general purpose filesystem, has MANY potential applications.