Re: [Moosefs-users] Small file sizes revisited - 12x space used

[Kristofer P. <kri...@cy...>]

Distribute filesystem always design for huge space. Waste often exist. eg:
>>> >>  Haystack in facebook, GFS in google never recycling space of delete
>>> >>  files, they mark flag for deleted status.
>>> >>
> It isn't true that all distributed file systems are designed for huge
> files.  Lustre for instance uses the block size of the underlying file
> system.  I disagree that the concept of distributed file systems is
> synonymous with large files.  That doesn't strike me as a valid reason
> to dismiss the idea of variable block sizes at compile time.

Just for clarification, he said huge space, not huge files. :)