> Evgeniy Polyakov wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > I'm pleased to announce fourth release of the distributed storage
> > subsystem, which allows to form a storage on top of remote and local
> > nodes, which in turn can be exported to another storage as a node to
> > form tree-like storages.
> >
> > This release includes new configuration interface (kernel connector over
> > netlink socket) and number of fixes of various bugs found during move
> > to it (in error path).
> >
> > Further TODO list includes:
> > * implement optional saving of mirroring/linear information on the remote
> > nodes (simple)
> > * new redundancy algorithm (complex)
> > * some thoughts about distributed filesystem tightly connected to DST
> > (far-far planes so far)
> >
> > Homepage:
> >
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/old/?section=projects&item=dst
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
>
> My thoughts. But first a disclaimer: Perhaps you will recall me as
> one of the people who really reads all your patches, and examines your
> code and proposals closely. So, with that in mind...
>
> I question the value of distributed block services (DBS), whether its
> your version or the others out there. DBS are not very useful, because
> it still relies on a useful filesystem sitting on top of the DBS. It
> devolves into one of two cases: (1) multi-path much like today's SCSI,
> with distributed filesystem arbitrarion to ensure coherency, or (2) the
> filesystem running on top of the DBS is on a single host, and thus, a
> single point of failure (SPOF).
