On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 14:55 +0200, Maciek Kaliszewski wrote:
>    
> I don't want to dispute terminology . Everyone has its own :-)

Well, indeed, it would seem that the general definition of distributed
filesystem == network filesystem.

I guess (and I am admittedly biased) I just feel like the bar on
"distributed" filesystems has been raised so that a distributed
filesystem is a network filesystem which is truly distributed amongst
more than one "server" node.  It doesn't seem the industry is
recognizing this (yet) however.
   
> VirtualBox is supposed to emulate desktop PC not full blown 
> hiper-complicated machine

Hiper-complicated machine?  "Hiper-complicated" machines, a.k.a.
super-computers, today, are frequently built using commodity "PC"s, so
modelling a supercomputer with a few VMs is a perfectly viable use-case.
The distinction is not as black and white as you might want it to be.

> If it is necessary to access one physical disk form few virtual machines 
> ATA over Ethernet it is way to go
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata_over_ethernet

Not it's not.  A VMDK virtual disk does just fine.  Perfectly in fact.

b.

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