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Would you mind explaining how exactly "Apple consistently leads and innovates ahead of other companies and open source"?
Maybe you didn't notice, but they just invented the Watch. Imagine...if you could put a whole entire clock...on your wrist. Almost everybody has a wrist!
Salient points: - NFS (v4). - Supports petabyte-scale file systems, thousands of concurrent NFS connections. - Automatically grows/shrinks in size. - Multi-zone storage and access. - $0.30 / (Gigabyte * month). - (Not mentioned) Both Linux and Windows have built-in NFS clients.
Does anyone use the NFS for Windows? Is it reliable enough I can move servers away from CIFS alogether if I want to access a Linux box from Windows. For instance if I click the folder's Properties in Windows, will I see the proper Unix perms and metadata and be able to edit them?
I wish AWS would be a little more technical in their product descriptions and announcements. If there was ever an audience that wants technical data about how this type of technology will scale and compares to existing technology like glusterfs it would be the AWS users. Instead the performance specifications are ".. and is designed to provide the throughput, IOPS, and low latency needed for a broad range of workload…
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We'll be providing a lot more details later.
Fair enough, but one of the biggest reasons I ignore these types of posts is because too often they lack these critical details, they come off as puff pieces to me. IMO these posts would hold value for a larger audience if that info was included in them.
This could be a byproduct of what they developed for Aurora (their upcoming redesigned mysql) shared storage. Probably the other way around.
We have been needing this very thing for hosting a large number of assets across multiple ec2 instances. Hope they roll this out quickly.
If you need something like EFS today, there is ObjectiveFS ( https://ObjectiveFS.com ), a posix cloud file system with S3 backend. Disclaimer: I am a co-founder :-)
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May I ask why? My experience with NFS is pretty bad performance wise.
Ya. I'm wondering how you'd back say a PostgreSQL instance over nfs? It is just different needs that require different solutions.
Oracle supports this- and they even wrote a user-space NFS client to "get the highest level of performance" (because they thought the kernel NFS implementation sucked).
The important bit is to ensure the NFS client and server implementation handle whatever POSIX features are required by the DB server.
The question (for me) now becomes "where do we go from here?"
Infinite NFS is great, but what I've always wanted is infinite EBS that is fully integrated from file system to SAN. In other words, something that behaves like a local file system (without the gotchas of NFS like a lack of delete on close), but I don't have to snapshot and create new volumes and issue file system expansion commands to grow a volume. I want seamless and automatic growth.
Furthermore, there's so much local SSD just sitting around when using EBS. I want to make full use of local SSD inside of an EC2 instance to do write-back or write-through caching. I could do this in software, but maybe there's an abstraction begging to be made at the service level.
Throw in things like snapshots, and this would make for a fairly powerful solution, and it would certainly remove a lot of operational concerns around growing database nodes and such.
Don't get me wrong, you can pull together a few things and write some automation to do this today. You could use LVM to stitch together many EBS volumes, add in caching middleware (dm-cache, flashcache, etc.), and then automate the addition of volumes and file system growth. However, it's clunky, and there's an opportunity to make this much easier.
I recognize that what I'm describing doesn't serve the same purpose as NFS - for example, EBS isn't mountable in multiple locations at once - but I'd really like to see the "seamless infinite storage" idea applied to EBS.
Salient points: - NFS (v4). - Supports petabyte-scale file systems, thousands of concurrent NFS connections. - Automatically grows/shrinks in size. - Multi-zone storage and access. - $0.30 / (Gigabyte * month). - (Not mentioned) Both Linux and Windows have built-in NFS clients.
For comparison, EBS is $0.10 / GB / Month for SSDs and $0.05 / GB / Month for regular disks.