some hopefully heavy mogilefs development

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

You should definitely start with MogileFS 2.0.  It's way more clean/robust
than 1.0.  But in any case, you can switch between them if you do decide
to start with 1.0.


On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Cahill, Earl wrote:

> Howdy,
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> My company is diving head first into some large scale file hosting and
> we think mogilefs will serve our needs well.  Today we got four pretty
> nice boxes and have a cluster of another say twenty not as nice boxes
> that we can use to pound on our mogile cluster.  Had we known about the
> summit last week (sorry, new to the list), we would have likely tried
> pretty hard to make it.
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> We are going to have two and a half programmers on the project for a
> fair amount of time and would like to do things right and give back what
> we can.  Keeping in mind that we are going to have our own API in front
> of mogile, we would like to do at least a couple things:
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> 1.       Write a test suite (this would likely test through our API, but
> perhaps we could write start some mogile specific tests.  I am not sure
> what is out there already)
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> 2.       Write a hammer suite.  Just hammer the heck out of mogile and
> see how it holds up
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> Just wondering if anyone has much experience with either.  Also
> wondering if we should hold off for mogilefs2.0, though the slides did
> say things would be backwards compatible.
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> Thanks,
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> Earl
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