On 12/5/06, Ivan Krstić <krstic(a)solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
George Herbert wrote:
On first glance... GFS doesn't seem relevant
to Wikimedia Foundation
work.
I brought it up because the BigTable design outsources certain
fault-tolerance worries to GFS, if I recall correctly. It's not a
necessity by itself, no.
Well, obviously BigTable depends on GFS, now that I'm looking at it, but
it's not a "we could use GFS for GFS'es sake" situation, unless I am
missing
something.
And as I mentioned, BigTable seems not useful as long as our indexes fit in
RAM, which I hope is the case.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com