Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:17 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Transactions, failover, performance. |
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Jamie Lokier wrote: > With the right topology and hardware, you can get _faster_ than single > node performance with as many nodes as you like
This is the core reason why I am so interested in distributed storage... a single storage device is usually slower than network wire speed. Multiple nodes helps remove that limitation and max out the network.
I want to be able to stream data _faster_ than a single hard drive can handle :)
Jeff
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