What storage service suits my usecase - Cloud FileStore or GCS?

[dheerajpanyam]

I am building a lightweight version of an IDE and exploring the possibility of what storage suits me best for hierarchical structure - Cloud Filestore or GCS?  My app is deployed on CR and I see CR supports Cloud FileStore.  The challenge is building the hierarchical folder structure / tree. 

[DamianS]

Hello @dheerajpanyam  ,Welcome on Google Cloud Community.

Buckets got some time ago hierarchical namespaces: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/hns-overview 

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[dheerajpanyam]

@DamianS Thanks for your reply. I understand that the GCS hierarchical namespace is relatively new but the question really is does it suit my usecase?

[DamianS]

Well hard to say. If you have application, which:
* is latency sensitive 
* requiring regional availability
* require recover some or all of your data from a prior snapshot recovery point in 10 minutes or less, then FileStore is for you. 

[dheerajpanyam]

Thanks @DamianS for the reply. Yes I agree with you but we are seeing a latency of 10 - 15 seconds whenever a new POD has to mount a PVC that is 1TiB in size if size does matter. End users are experiencing latency with the app because of this. 

[DamianS]

Did you've used FileStore regional or Basic ? 

[dheerajpanyam]

@DamianS  We are using FileStore Zonal