Distributed file system

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:28, Alexander Spanke wrote:

> sorry if i wrote things to cryptic, of course is gfs a filesystem in the
> main terminology but from technical point of view, the detailed look it
> is a big add on to NFS. NFS is needed for GFS, or RedHat modified it in
> that sense but i don't believe it.

I'm not sure where you got that idea, but NFS is not needed for GFS. 
GFS and NFS are totally different beasts.  NFS is a network-based
filesystem using a client and a server; GFS is a disk-based journaling
filesystem allowing peers to access a shared disk with no server.  They
could hardly be more different!

--Stephen