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Contents 1 Mission Statement 1.1 Requirements 1.2 Starfish will probably never 1.3 We will always pick features in the following order

Mission Statement

Starfish strives to be a scalable replacement for centralized network file systems (Samba, NFS, Intermezzo, etc.). It allows you to build a multi-petabyte scalable file system that performs automatic, transparent data backup.

Requirements

• Starfish must scale metadata storage linearly.
• Starfish must scale read and write speeds linearly.
• Single server/client read and write speeds should match or exceed NFS and Samba.
• Starfish must run on commodity hardware.

Starfish will probably never

• Perform metadata operations as fast as NFS/Samba.
• Directly support expensive hardware.
• Support disconnected operation.

We will always pick features in the following order

• Increased data reliability
• Increased scalability
• Decreased operational cost
• Ease of use
• Increased speed