Comments on: Less is More–Part 2 http://storageoptimization.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/less-is-more-part-2/ Exploring Storage In an Online World Sun, 08 Feb 2009 05:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: draft_ceo http://storageoptimization.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/less-is-more-part-2/#comment-19 draft_ceo Thu, 15 May 2008 05:26:08 +0000 http://storageoptimization.wordpress.com/?p=8#comment-19 Authentication and access control are a very small problem of a filesystem, and they generally are not of much cost. The same goes for locking, etc. In web 2.0 systems, you will still need to traverse a directory path to reach the appropriate files. And that needs to be fast like any other traditional filesystem requirement. Reading and writing will also need to be fast like in a traditional filesystem. I am trying to understand how these web 2.0 filesystems differ fundamentally from traditional filesystems. I guess the main difference is that web 2.0 stuff is free, and they do not have to guard too much against data loss :) Authentication and access control are a very small problem of a filesystem, and they generally are not of much cost. The same goes for locking, etc.

In web 2.0 systems, you will still need to traverse a directory path to reach the appropriate files. And that needs to be fast like any other traditional filesystem requirement. Reading and writing will also need to be fast like in a traditional filesystem. I am trying to understand how these web 2.0 filesystems differ fundamentally from traditional filesystems.

I guess the main difference is that web 2.0 stuff is free, and they do not have to guard too much against data loss :)

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