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New Linux Petabyte-Scale Distributed File System

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-it-out dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A recent addition to Linux's impressive selection of file systems is Ceph, a distributed file system that incorporates replication and fault tolerance while maintaining POSIX compatibility. Explore the architecture of Ceph and learn how it provides fault tolerance and simplifies the management of massive amounts of data."

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  1. Re:Totally not ripped from a webcomic... by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pick one.

    What you call a "rat's nest", we call "compatibility", and it works surprisingly well. Writing a game? Use OpenAL -- the distro will configure it to work. Need realtime audio for a DAW? Use JACK. Anything else? Use ALSA.

    What if you picked the "wrong one"? Doesn't really matter. If you managed to build a decent DAW on top of ALSA, it'll continue to work on top of ALSA. If you used OSS, that still works today.

    Video APIs? Flash has its own codecs, so all you need to know is xvideo.

    Seriously, you have even less of an excuse than people who bitch about how Linux has both GNOME and KDE, and oh, the horrors of actually having a choice.

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