Article 1BVB6 Interview: Moving Beyond POSIX with the new MarFS Object Storage Project

Interview: Moving Beyond POSIX with the new MarFS Object Storage Project

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Rich Brueckner
from High-Performance Computing News Analysis | insideHPC on (#1BVB6)
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"We wanted to get away from the complexity of POSIX for data, yet retain the parts of POSIX that people are used to (metadata manipulation). By divorcing ourselves from the complications of ensuring a completely POSIX data flow, we can massively simplify the data movement and storage mechanisms. MarFS lets us retain the parts of POSIX that users appreciate for data management (chown, chmod, rename, mv, etc) without inheriting the complexity of managing POSIX semantics for data manipulation. By treating the data as essentially immutable, we can leverage the very simple PUT/GET/DELETE semantics of "cloudy" data storage systems to scale out storage with ease."

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