Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
Posted Apr 6, 2007 19:31 UTC (Fri) by zooko (guest, #2589)Parent article: Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
You'll soon learn to look at the name of the poster of LWN news items. "cook" and "ris" tend to post items which are not as interesting or as topical as the ones we got used to when "corbet" was the only poster.
Hopefully cook and ris will adjust in response to user feedback. Or maybe we could create an alternate news feed for only the more interesting items. Such a feed would of course have a lower frequency of update. Hm... In fact, if I just stopped loading lwn.net to check for new news and instead only looked at the weekly LWN releases, then I guess I would be happier...
Regards,
Zooko
P.S. I'm personally fascinated by the topic of distributed file systems, as it has been my primary focus in professional and open source work for many years. But somehow lightly masticated press releases are just rarely interesting.
Posted Apr 6, 2007 21:08 UTC (Fri)
by joib (subscriber, #8541)
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Interesting. So what's your take on Lustre vs. Panasas vs. pNFS vs. ceph vs. something else? Based on a quick look ceph looks interesting, but it seems there's momentum behind pNFS which is quite similar to Lustre and PanFS.
Anyway, once these mature and show good performance on metadata-intensive workloads, they might mean the end to all those gold-plated (and non-scalable) SAN arrays. woot..
Posted Apr 6, 2007 22:21 UTC (Fri)
by i3839 (guest, #31386)
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Posted Apr 6, 2007 22:53 UTC (Fri)
by mikov (guest, #33179)
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Seriously, I think that the strong negative reaction to some of the stories here (e.g. the 3GHz AMD yesterday) is uncalled for.
Posted Apr 6, 2007 23:18 UTC (Fri)
by i3839 (guest, #31386)
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Look, it's not the end of the world, but if they want people to take the front page (or the RSS) seriously, "articles" like this need to be rare, not common like now seems to happen. Besides, it's harder to find the interesting articles when they're hidden between garbage.
Posted Apr 6, 2007 23:34 UTC (Fri)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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This is one of those situations were you should listen to your mom when she said "If you don't got anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.". A email to the editor would be much more appropriate.
There isn't anything with this website that I've noticed that they should only concentrate on open source software, right? And it's very typical for any sort of periodical I've ever seen to mention product announcements and such things. I am sure that more then a couple subscribers would be interested in such a thing, even if it's just curiosity of what exactly this thing does.
Posted Apr 8, 2007 0:22 UTC (Sun)
by i3839 (guest, #31386)
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No it isn't, that only holds for when saying things about people. This is generating user feedback, doesn't hurt anyone (if the joking around about ris and cook isn't taken seriously anyway ;-).
Maybe, maybe not. But we'll never know if users don't give feedback, would we?
I'm personally fascinated by the topic of distributed file systems, as it has been my primary focus in professional and open source work for many years.
Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
You're suggesting cook and ris are being bribed? I wouldn't dare to go that far, but if it's really true, it would be horrible!Ohw noh
I am almost absolutely sure (about 0.01%) that "cook" and "ris" are pseudonims which "corbet" uses when he has to post a story which isn't that interesting :-)Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
It depends whether they give false hope for interesting and relevant content or not. The 3GHz AMD is about hardware, which isn't really LWN's focus, and this one is about a costly closed source one out of a better handful. Both aren't much more than advertisement, but they're posted as articles.Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
You realise that your getting upset over a single sentence, right?Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)
Yes I am. But I followed the link and over all invested too much time into it to leave without getting anything out of it, so what else could I've done? At least now we've some discussion going on, and LWN gets some user feedback. First we had only an uninteresting one line advertisement, so I consider it an improvement...Radiant Data launches 64-bit Linux HA replicating file system (Linux-Watch)