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github.com/NVIDIA/aistore At the 1 billion valuation from the previous round, achieving a successful exit requires a company with deep pockets. Right now, Nvidia is probably a suit…

Raising 100 mil at 1 B valuation and then trying for an exit is a bitch!

If it is not an Apache/CNCF/LinuxFoundation project, it can be a rug pull aimed at using open source for getting people in the door only. They were never open for commits, and now …

Raising 100 mil at 1 B valuation and then trying for an exit is a bitch!

Longhorn is a poorly implemented distributed storage layer. You are better off with Ceph.

NFS is its own spec, that is somewhat compliant with POSIX, and arguably FUSE is POSIX and can be used to implement a POSIX-compliant filesystem.

Please do not make decisions based on this article. It is a poorly written blog with typos and a lack of technical depth. The blog puts Goofys in the same bucket as JuiceFS and All…

Glad you wrote it, the title took me down the same path for a few seconds :-D

I think CS grads often skip the part of how something actually works and are happy with abstractions.

Google Cloud Storage had it for eons before S3. GCS comes across as a much better thought-out and built product.

They are not efficient; they have a one-time static hash to create a cluster. After that, it is all duct tape and glue. Want to expand? Add another cluster (pool) and then look for…

Look under the hood, the limitations are based on the core, sticking a UI on it does not hide what needs to happen at scale.

Try expanding a cluster, or changing erasure coding configuration, or using anything that needs random access within a file (parquet), or any day 2 operation.