Possible use for memcache?

Ivan Krstic krstic at fas.harvard.edu
Mon Nov 28 17:59:43 PST 2005


mike wrote:
> You should work on porting MogileFS to FUSE finally, so it doesn't
> have to be coded into the specific application and would just be a
> transparent filesystem to everything else :)

MogileFS is *not* meant to be a regular filesystem. It's not POSIX
compliant. There's no random access within a file. The HTTP overhead
that MogileFS incurs is trivial given its design goals and intended
purpose. Memcached is not a database, or a DLM. These are custom tools
that were built to fulfill particular needs, and you're trying to bend
them out of shape to do something they aren't meant to.

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