Distributed file system

[Alexander Spanke]

Hi,

GFS is more or less and advanced NFS, using this will bring you a huge
improvement of speed nothing else... but it is really nice if you are
working with it in a SAN environment ... :)

Cheers
 Alex

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 14:49 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Rahul Sundaram
> 
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