[rabbitmq-discuss] amqpfs announcement

[Yurii Rashkovskii]

Alexis,

Short answer is no.

Long answer is

1) I haven't used HDFS myself so I can't say much about it
2) It does not support HDFS
3) HDFS goal is to provide a distributed and fault-tolerant filesystem, while AMQPFS goal is to expose services available through AMQP bus as filesystems (hence Filesystem as API)
4) I can see how somebody may develop a hdfs_amqpfs_provider that will be available through AMQP and will integrate with HDFS (so, _yes it could_)
5) *However*, I am not sure is there any good reason for doing this

Yurii

On 2009-12-22, at 12:21 AM, Alexis Richardson wrote:

> Neat!  Does this also work with HDFS (or could it)?
> 
> alexis
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 6:43 AM, yrashk <yrashk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am happy to announce an early version of aqmpfs (I've been cooking it for
>> a little bit more than a week).
>> 
>> AMQPFS is a Filesystem as API that works through AMQPFS, all filesystem
>> providers are available through AMQP bus and can be distributed in the
>> network.
>> 
>> What's the point? Why one may need this? Well, this project started as a way
>> to integrate some third-party software while maintaining no real files or
>> directories for it.
>> 
>> For example, it could be used to serve configuration files, receive logs and
>> such. Itsuse is virtually unlimited.
>> 
>> Plus, it can also utilize multiple instances of providers for the same path
>> which leads us to interesting fault tolerance and availability algorithms.
>> 
>> Would be glad to know if anybody else will find it useful.
>> 
>> It is available at http://github.com/scallable/amqpfs
>> 
>> Please note that it is very immature and pretty much undocumented. Feel free
>> to contact
>> me (yrashk on FreeNode IRC or yrashk at gmail.com by e-mail).
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Yurii
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