[okfn-help] data grid via nginx-gridfs

Wed Jun 9 18:51:28 BST 2010

On 7 June 2010 18:17, James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rufus,
>
> I was going to suggest (before you mentioned that you had moved on
> from mongo), that this looks like it could be a way of handling a grid

We haven't moved on and this seems an orthogonal issue (i.e. a
distributed filesystem ...)

> filesystem:
> http://github.com/mdirolf/nginx-gridfs
>
> Benchmarks:
>  - http://www.coffeepowered.net/2010/02/17/serving-files-out-of-gridfs/
>  - http://www.ypass.net/solaris/nginx-gridfs-benchmarks/results.html

Interesting. Anyone up for putting together a test drive script and
trying this out using a couple of our machines (could use eu5 and
a.n.other).

rufus