On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 12:41:10AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> I have just become aware of the GFS project and I am BLOWN AWAY.
>
> I don't know how this project reached production quality status and escaped my
> radar until now. I got an email from my VAR for StorageTek disk arrays today
GFS is most cool. You should be aware, however, that it is not
yet production quality. The journaling code is mostly done, but it is
not stable yet. Client errors can (and do) result in corruption of the
entire filesystem. (As of a few weeks ago)
It should be nearing Alpha quality at this point, but it is not ready
for production use.
> and tell me what you think. Does this sound like a good way to cluster mail
> servers to you too?
It is the holy grail of mail clustering. :) It's just not there
quite yet. I have priced it out, though, and you can build quite
an effective (and large) mail cluster for under 100k with it.
If you're still interested in looking at it, BoxHill makes some
excellent storage arrays that support hardware SCSI Dlocking. Good
juju.
Adam
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