Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit login

ISTM one could design a filesystem as a Byzantine-fault-tolerant distributed system that happens to have many nodes (disks) partially sharing hardware (CPU, memory, etc). The result would not look that much like RAID, but would look quite a bit like Ceph and its relatives.

Bonus points for making the result efficiently support multiple nodes, each with multiple disks.




Join us for AI Startup School this June 16-17 in San Francisco!

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: