[hintymad]

A distributed file system is honed as one of the trickiest software to write, and we are usually advised not to write a file system from scratch (even on top of FUSE), let alone a highly optimized one. When a silicon value company is having the 100th meeting to align god-knows-what, a team of fewer than 60 already came up with a production-grade highly efficient parallel file system.

Have we in the valley companies lost touch?

[htrp]

> team of fewer than 10

the highflyer team are pretty well resourced.... think they have more than 10 people

[hintymad]

Thanks! Updated to 60 per their author list in their paper.

[ssivark]

Why do you assume everyone in the company (including folks working on infra) are authors on the paper? That’s possible, of course, but isn’t it unlikely?

[hintymad]

That's the only information I have. That said, High-Flyer had about 160 people, total, in 2021. Given that F3 was in production in 2019, 60 people is a generous estimation.

[ycui1986]

yes