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Synthetic Morpheme Christopher Taylor's editorials on Science, Technology, Salsa dancing and more ![]() A little write up at The New York Times on my favorite little DVD rental service, Netflix [Netflix Uses Speed to Fend Off Wal-mart Challenge]. 2:10:33 PM
![]() PhotoSIG is a site with photos posted by many different photographers and discussion lists [photoSIG]. 1:57:15 PM
![]() I was telling some people the other day that I thought it would be easy to build a distributed file-system that would have higher throughput, higher capacity and be easier to scale than the big SAN solutions at a fraction of the cost. The key is to build it using commodity hardware and IDE drives (SCSI would be optional). Google has release a papaer on the Google File System [ArsTechnica].
If I were to consult on a file storage system to be built from scratch, I would most likely suggest a distributed approach. Anyone out there know of any OSS projects to build such a filesystem? 1:55:07 PM
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