Distributed file system

[Rahul Sundaram]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:54:57 +0530, gaurav <gauravp at hclcomnet.co.in> wrote:
> Hi List,
>            I have around 50 machines in my lab, since user data is lying
> at  central server (all home directory mounted here)....around 50 to 70%
> storage of local machines is un used .. I was thinking if there was a
> file system using which
> 
>    1. Is Distributed across all these  machines
>    2. Transparent to users (i.e for users can access thru normal path eg
>       /dist/tom/data )
>    3. Redundancy factor (Since files are distributed, if one part of
>       gets corrupt it should automatically restore)
>    4. ACL
>    5. Scalable

Fedora core 4 will have Red Hat GFS. Its already in rawhide if you
want to check it out


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Regards,
Rahul Sundaram