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The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

nevyn — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:03:51 +0000

> On the other hand, CoreOS doesn't deserve the treatment they got on HackerNews

I'm not so sure, I trust Jeff a lot and his thoughts weren't exactly positive:

http://pl.atyp.us/2016-06-torus.html

> And who else's FS could they have used?

Did they even say why they couldn't use literally any of the open source DFSs?

The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

krakensden — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 23:29:15 +0000

Brian Cantrill was right in there leading the flamewar for Joyent, so presumably their product.

In defense of all the grumpiness, there has been a lot of Google Infrastructure For Everyone Else projects over the past few years, and a lot of people got burnt.

The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

sciurus — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 01:46:11 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11816122

The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

NightMonkey — Fri, 03 Jun 2016 00:28:53 +0000

Got Link? :)

The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

jberkus — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 23:59:18 +0000

Not in detail, since they just released it. I'll be giving it a try and may be able to cover it later.

One thing, though: perfecting a clustered filesystem is hard, slow work. Look at the timelines for Ceph, Gluster, OCFS, etc,; it takes 5 to 10 years to get one up to production quality. CoreOS has more experience with distributed systems than most organizations, but don't expect to deploy this tommorrow.

On the other hand, CoreOS doesn't deserve the treatment they got on HackerNews. They had some pretty good reasons for this project. And who else's FS could they have used?

The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

sjj — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 22:46:13 +0000

What a strange attitude, thanks for reporting...

Anybody in the know who could compare Torus with Ceph, Swift, Gluster, etc?

The CoreOS "Torus" distributed storage system

wazoox — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:32:56 +0000

The hacker news discussion is pretty severe and nasty, something like "these guys don't know anything, they're reinventing the wheel in one of the hardest CS matter ever, they're morons and they'll fail".