Re: S3 / HDFS

These guys have a mechanism (using http://fuse.sourceforge.net/) that  
allows a local EC2 drive to be backed by S3 storage using a RAID array  
-- worth a try if direct S3 is too slow: http:// 
www.elasticdrive.com/.  Haven't tried it yet.
Joost.

On 9-Feb-08, at 4:23 PM, Matt Mankins wrote:

> Excellent.  Thanks for the clarification!  I'll post any findings.
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Jim Kellerman wrote:
>
>> I believe that S3 is one of several "file systems" that Hadoop  
>> supports. HBase only uses the Hadoop
>> file system abstraction, so it *should* work on any file system  
>> that Hadoop can.
>>
>> ---
>> Jim Kellerman, Senior Engineer; Powerset
>>