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jamiesonbecker ◴[] No.46254941[source]
These questions are meant to be constructively critical, but not hyper-critical: I'm genuinely interested and a big fan of open-source projects in this space:

* In terms of a high-performance AI-focused S3 competitor, how does this compare to NVIDIA's AIstore? https://aistore.nvidia.com/

* What's the clustering story? Is it complex like ceph, requires K8s like AIstore for full functionality, or is it more flexible like Garage, Minio, etc?

* You spend a lot of time talking about performance; do you have any benchmarks?

* Obviously most of the page was written by ChatGPT: what percentage of the code was written by AI, and has it been reviewed by a human?

* How does the object storage itself work? How is it architected? Do you DHT, for example? What tradeoffs are there (CAP, for example) vs the 1.4 gazillion alternatives?

* Are there any front-end or admin tools (and screenshots)?

* Can a cluster scale horizontally or only vertically (ie Minio)

* Why not instead just fork a previous version of Minio and then put a high-speed metadata layer on top?

* Is there any telemetry?

* Although it doesn't matter as much for my use case as for others, what is the specific jurisdiction of origin?

* Is there a CLA and does that CLA involve assigning rights like copyright (helps prevent the 'rug-pull' closing-source scenario)?

* Is there a non-profit Foundation, goal for CNCF sponsorship or other trusted third-party to ensure that the software remains open source (although forks of prior versions mostly mitigates that concern)?

Thanks!

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1. mirekrusin ◴[] No.46255902[source]
But this fractalbits thingy is not open source.

Their internals (in zig, actually interesting functional part) are proprietary.

What is open source is client side to access it from rust.

Did I get it right?

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2. fractalbits ◴[] No.46256699[source]
Yes, since zig is moving to new async IO and we'd like to wait for it to be more stable before open sourcing our metadata engine. You can check the underneath runtime which we are using for now: https://codeberg.org/thomas-fractalbits/iofthetiger