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Eikon

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    Comment #48764028

    Kind-of should work :)

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    Comment #48763155

    NFSv4 is a hard beast to implement correctly, with a lot of protocol surface (state, compound ops, delegations) for benefits ZeroFS mostly gets through 9P with extensions, over a m…

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    Comment #48762958

    ZeroFS aims to be a POSIX filesystem, the semantics here are the standard ones (ext4, xfs behave the same): write() is buffered (that's the batching) and "committed" maps to fsync(…

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    Comment #48762847

    Thank you, appreciated!

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    Comment #48762700

    > I believe the first version of this required the metadata to be stored on the ZeroFS server, making HA kinda hard. Metadata has always been in the bucket itself. For HA, there's …

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    Comment #48762458

    That's fair advice, thanks.

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    Comment #48762265

    Is it? :) Ask me anything!

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    Comment #48762001

    Thank you for the feedback, the idea behind this was to say "We make claims that are backed by workflows you can verify". I'll improve the phrasing.

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    Comment #48761957

    Just a self hosted plausible instance :)

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    Comment #48664724

    It's there! https://www.zerofs.net/docs/kubernetes-csi

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    Comment #48662793

    Most of the pain here is the typical set of issues people run into trying to make S3 a filesystem as-is, common with S3FS-family approaches. ZeroFS ( https://github.com/Barre/zerof…

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    > Is this only was S3 or any S3 compliant service? Any S3 compliant service. > Does it support any sort of storage tiering ? Yes, it has a local cache that's populated on reads, bu…

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    > Millions of files, Interrupted transfers, Backup Server Reboots, Long-term operation? Yes, that should work fine!

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    > I assessed the tool on a CentOS 7 system today. It can't run on older CentOS 6. It will generate core dump. Perhaps your cpu is too old? The prebuilt binaries require newer CPUs …

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