Also have a look at silicon-gear.com, that also makes a Dlock array.

-jeremy

> 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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