Take a look at riak too. Wikia's sysadmin Artur (crucially) built file storage for Wikia using riak and a custom fuse module.
~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]
On 11-03-18 04:09 PM, Rob Lanphier wrote:
Hi everyone,
Russ Nelson (svn account: nelson) is a new committer to core MediaWiki. Russ is contracting to Wikimedia Foundation to create a scalable media storage system based on OpenStack's Swift object store, some Swift middleware custom for MediaWiki, and File and FileRepo-derived classes specific to Swift.
User page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:RussNelson
Rob