12 Aug
2009
12 Aug
'09
9:47 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 19:19 +0100, Ed W wrote:
I actually thought your idea of having a bunch of cut down IMAP type servers as the backend storage talking to a bunch of beefier frontend servers was quite an interesting idea!
Certainly though a simplification of the on-disk API would encourage new storage engines, so perhaps a three tier infrastructure is worth considering? (Frontend, intelligent backend, storage)
I guess this is something similar to what I wrote in my "v3.0 architecture" mail. This new FS abstraction solves some of those problems that v3.0 was supposed to solve, so I'm not that excited about it anymore. But sure, maybe some day. :) For now I'm anyway more interested about getting a simple FS abstraction done.