[mmckeen]

The design of this seems very similar to GlusterFS, which has a very elegant design. It just acts as a translation layer for normal POSIX syscalls and forwards those calls to daemons running on each storage host, which then reproduces the syscalls on disk. This seems like very much the same thing except using git operations.

[notacoward]

Thanks for the compliment. While I as a GlusterFS developer would like to see us get more credit for the ways in which we've innovated, this is not such a case. The basic model of forwarding operations instead of changed data was the basis for AT&T UNIX's RFS in 1986 and NFS in 1989. Even more relevantly, PVFS2 already did this in a fully distributed way before we came along. I'd like to make sure those projects' authors get due credit as well, for blazing the path that we followed.

[mmckeen]

I didn't say that GlusterFS was the first to do it, just always liked the simplicity of the design. It makes hacking on the internals extremely easily to reason about.

[notacoward]

Glad you like it. We enjoy it too. :)