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Using AUFS to Combine Directories (With AWESOME Benefits)
A stackable or unification filesystem (referred to as a “union” filesystem) is one that combines the contents of many directories into a single directory. Junjiro Okajima’s AUFS (“aufs-tools”, under...
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ZFS for Volume Management and RAID
ZFS is an awesome filesystem, developed by Sun and ported to Linux. Although not distributed, it emphasizes durability and simplicity. It’s essentially an alternative to the common combination of md...
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Building a Distributed Filesystem with GlusterFS
GlusterFS is a relatively easy, distributed, C-based filesystem. I ran across a good tutorial for it: Setup Glusterfs with a replicated volume over 2 nodes
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Very Easy, Pleasant, Secure, and Python-Accessible Distributed Storage With...
Tahoe is a file-level distributed filesystem, and it’s a joy to use. “LAFS” stands for “Least Authority Filesystem”. According to the homepage: Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an...
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Recursively Scanning a Path with Filters under Python
Python has a great function to walk a tree called os.walk(). It’s a simple generator (meaning that you just enumerate it), and, at each node (a specific child path) it gives you 1) the current path, 2)...
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