On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 at 21:31, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> Personally, i'd like to see code from the Global File System get into
> the mainstream. It includes in itself a journalling fs layer aside
> from the fact that you can cluster your servers and truly offer
> redundancy and load balancing for your network. There's so much effort
> at re-doing the wheel, when what should actually be done is go one
> step higher...
This is another one of those things I've looked at a bit, and am hoping to
have enough machine to try out on soon. Interesting in that it frees you
from the constraints and bottlenecks of NFS, SFS, Coda, or AFS. Instead of
putting a server between the filesystem and the "clients" across the
network, GFS links the cluster of servers with the cluster of disks via
fibre channel or shared SCSI.
Those of you interested with checking out may go to
<http://www.sistina.com/gfs/>.
For the impatient (hehe), here's the first paragraph of the homepage:
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The Global File System (GFS) is a shared disk cluster file system for
Linux. GFS supports journaling and recovery from client failures. GFS
cluster nodes physically share the same storage by means of Fibre Channel
or shared SCSI devices. The file system appears to be local on each node
and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster. GFS is fully
symmetric, that is, all nodes are equal and there is no server which may
be a bottleneck or single point of failure. GFS uses read and write
caching while maintaining full UNIX file system semantics.
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:)
--> Jijo
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