[Openstack] international standard for object storage architecture
Clint Byrum
clint at fewbar.com
Fri Jan 3 03:38:44 UTC 2014
Excerpts from Dnsbed Ops's message of 2014-01-02 18:15:12 -0800:
> On 2014-1-3 5:13, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > MogileFS isn't really a file system. There is a FUSE plugin but nobody
> > really wants to use it that way. It works basically identically to S3
> > and Swift for a single tenant, though its APIs is a native protocol
> > instead of HTTP (uploads and downloads are still HTTP). It doesn't have
> > the concept of "containers" and is just a big flat key/value store,
> > and it doesn't have multi-tenants, but it is basically a predecessor of
> > today's object stores.
>
> Really? We have been using Mogilefs as an object storage in the
> production environment with multi-tenants supported based on its
> "domain" features.
>
It has been several years since I deployed MogileFS. I suppose it has
learned some new tricks. :)
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