Hi,
On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:58:46 -0400, Tom Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hmm, well GFS isn't exactly an improvement on NBD, it's more like an
> entirely different filesystem type.
GFS is a shared disk filesystem. It doesn't care how the disk is
shared, and one of the side projects they have taken on is to extend nbd
to provide a level of functionality at which they could run GFS over
nbd. The resulting gnbd code is on the GFS cvs repository afaik: I can
look out and post the gnbd announcement if you like.
> 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
ext3 should be usable by Christmas/new year.
> and/or some other kind of nicely-working, network-distributed
> filesystem (such as GFS).
InterMezzo will be there _much_ sooner by all accounts. It has already
been demonstrated under serious load, and Peter is spending a lot of
time on it right now. InterMezzo is a more loosely coupled filesystem
than GFS, but should be perfect for jobs which do not require shared
write access to single files. See http://www.inter-mezzo.org/. It's
exciting stuff. :)
Cheers,
Stephen
