Subject: Re: POHMELFS high performance network filesystem. Transactions, failover, performance.

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:17 -0400

Jamie Lokier wrote:
> With the right topology and hardware, you can get _faster_ than single
> node performance with as many nodes as you like

This is the core reason why I am so interested in distributed storage... 
  a single storage device is usually slower than network wire speed. 
Multiple nodes helps remove that limitation and max out the network.

I want to be able to stream data _faster_ than a single hard drive can 
handle :)

	Jeff