Hmm, well GFS isn't exactly an improvement on NBD, it's more like an
entirely different filesystem type. I was talking with Simon Horman of
VA-Research at Internet World in NYC this past week, and he feels that
it'll be 12 to 18 months until we have ext3 and/or some other kind of
nicely-working, network-distributed filesystem (such as GFS). I have
some ideas for hacks to RAID-1 and the nbd drivers. I've contacted
Pavel Machek, the original author of NBD, to see what he knows about
other efforts underway with his NBD stuff. I will re-post to this list
with whatever I find out from him. Seems there's some interest in this
topic with people other than just me... ;)
Tom
"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
> One is the GFS team at http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu/. The other hasn't
> announced publicly yet.
>
> --Stephen
>
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