[TriLUG] Request for a new file system

[Scott Lambdin]

Thanks for this.  It got me looking and our storage vender, EMC has software
to do it too.   Legato DiskXtender.  If we are lucky and already have a
license then yay.

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Jimmy Dorff <jdorff at phy.duke.edu> wrote:

> On 12/09/2010 03:13 PM, Scott Lambdin wrote:
>
>> Someone write me a new file system driver, please.   It is for an
>> application's archive storage.  The file system must be fast when an
>> application writes a file, so the file will at first not be compressed.
>> But after some time, the system will compress the file during down cycles.
>> But, the files will look the same to the dumb application, whether
>> compressed or not.
>>
>
> A bit more complex than you were looking for perhaps, but you could
> probably accomplish this with dCache (http://www.dcache.org/). Used in the
> Physics community to store peta-bytes of data. Of course it is open source
> as well.
>
> -Jimmy
>
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