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Re: Distributed file system, which one would you consider?

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Subject: Re: Distributed file system, which one would you consider?
From: Mack.Joseph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:39:31 -0400
Joseph Mack PhD, High Performance Computing & Scientific Visualisation
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lvs-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/22/2005 08:05:18
AM:


> Now i looked at coda,

Coda is not being developed anymore AFAIK


> GFS, needs special storage hardware, and i don't have
> that. nor do i
> think its the way forward for linux clusters.

distributed file systems are difficult to write. The only
ones available for Linux AFAIK are GFS and Lustre. If you
want a distributed filesystem, you're into big money just
for the hardware.

Joe



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