SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system
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HN comment orderI am Chris the author. btw: This is not a new project. It has been around since 2011. Many people tested it and contributed on it. It may not be the tool for everyone. But I guess many companies will need a key~file store. There is also a "Filer" component. This is a side project. Welcome any VC to invest in this.
Their architecture descriptions starts with a strawman: > Usually distributed file systems split each file into chunks, a central master keeps a mapping of filenames, chunk indices to chunk handles, and also which chunks each chunk server has. > The main drawback is that the central master can't handle many small files efficiently, and since all read requests need to go through the chunk master, so it might not scale well for many concurrent users. The chunk server architecture has…
Self-plug. This is based off the Haystack paper: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi10/tech/full_papers/... from Facebook. Relevant blog-post is here: https://code.facebook.com/posts/685565858139515/needle-in-a-... I gave a talk about Haystack at PWL: http://www.meetup.com/papers-we-love-too/events/220795812/ with the relevant video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuNumdi1Do0
We introduced SeaweedFS as a distributed file storage service in our self-hosted instant messaging product for 4 years. It is easily configurable, deployable and works stability.
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-06-25 | Seaweedfs | josephscott | 10 | 0 |
| 2015-08-09 | Seaweed-FS: simple distributed file system written in Go | thinxer | 67 | 11 |
| 2017-01-04 | SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file systemFirst breakout · Best thread | daenney | 119 | 50 |
| 2020-09-20 | SeaweedFS is a simple and highly scalable distributed file system | dfischer | 6 | 3 |
| 2020-10-07 | SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API | dragonsh | 4 | 0 |
| 2020-10-08 | SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 APILatest 20+ point return | dragonsh | 106 | 75 |
| 2020-10-09 | SeaweedFS – A simple and highly scalable distributed file system with S3 API | dragonsh | 2 | 0 |