Does anyone have any experience with CloudStore, formerly known as KosmosFS? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudStore:

CloudStore (KFS, previously Kosmosfs) is Kosmix's C++ implementation of
Google File System. ... CloudStore supports incremental scalability,
replication, checksumming for data integrity, client side fail-over and access
from C++, Java and Python.

The project site is here: http://kosmosfs.sourceforge.net/

I'd be interested in comments on general usability, quality, and "feel"...

thanks!

--titus

Legacy Comments

Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 2009-11-25 at 09:13.

My impression is that HDFS has at least one and maybe two orders of
magnitude more users shaking the bugs out.  So if I needed a GFS clone
I would use that one.    Also, if I needed to use the source I'd much
rather read someone else's Java than C++.

Posted by Titus Brown on 2009-11-25 at 20:33.

hey Jonathan, thanks -- GFS advertised differently so I didn't think
it would fit my needs, but it does seem to in actuality.  It's pretty
usable from Python?

Posted by Titus Brown on 2009-11-25 at 20:33.

Sorry, that would be HDFS :)

Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 2009-11-26 at 22:20.

Dunno, but I would think that between the Jython, Thrift, and libhdfs
options something probably works.  It looks like third-party SWIG and
ctypes wrappers for libhdfs are out there.    The command line is
pretty complete, too: <a href="http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/cu
rrent/hdfs_shell.html">http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/hd
fs_shell.html</a>