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From: "Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: "Goswin von Brederlow" <goswin-v-b@web.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr, plasma-list@ocaml-programming.de
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] PlasmaFS, PlasmaKV, and MapReduce, version 0.5.1
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:46:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <11c23aed30c7c274c93bd7ebf4ed6d9e.squirrel@gps.dynxs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874nxrmssr.fsf@frosties.localnet>


> "Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just released Plasma-0.5.1, fixing a possible lock-up.
>>
>> General information about Plasma:
>>
>> Plasma consists now of three parts, namely PlasmaFS, PlasmaKV, and
>> Plasma
>> Map/Reduce:
>>
>>       * PlasmaFS is a distributed replicating filesystem. Unlike other
>>         such filesystems, it is transactional and exhibits transactions
>>         to the user. Also, it implements almost all of what is known as
>>         POSIX semantics, and it is mountable.
>>       * PlasmaKV is a key/value database on top of PlasmaFS. It is
>>         designed for ultra-high read workloads, and offers interesting
>>         properties borrowed from PlasmaFS (e.g. replication and ACID
>>         transactions).
>>       * Plasma Map/reduce implements a variant of the popular
>>         data processing scheme.
>>
>> All pieces of software are bundled together in one download. The
>> project page with further links is
>>
>> http://projects.camlcity.org/projects/plasma.html
>>
>> There is now also a homepage at
>>
>> http://plasma.camlcity.org
>>
>> THIS IS NOW A BETA RELEASE! I'm searching for testers. Whoever has
>> access to a cluster please check Plasma out!
>>
>> Plasma is installable via GODI for Ocaml 3.12.
>>
>> For discussions on specifics of Plasma there is a separate mailing list:
>>
>> https://godirepo.camlcity.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-list
>>
>> Gerd
>
> Any plans to support fuse so the filesystem can be mounted locally?

You can already do this via NFS (V3). This is only a mild additional
overhead, and the Linux NFS client supports bigger blocksizes than fuse
(1M vs. 128K).

Fuse is on my list but low priority for now.

Gerd

> MfG
>         Goswin
>
>


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      reply	other threads:[~2011-11-26  9:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25 17:46 Gerd Stolpmann
2011-11-26  4:06 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2011-11-26  9:46   ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]

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