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From: "girish" <girishc@india.hp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.x write_super is not for syncing
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 22:54:15 +0530
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Cc: "Bryan Henderson" <hbryan@us.ibm.com>,
	"Matthew Wilcox" <willy@debian.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@digeo.com>, <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Chris Mason" <mason@suse.com>, "Stephen Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
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To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>,
	"Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo" <acme@conectiva.com.br>
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> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 10:36, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Em Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:17:40PM -0800, Bryan Henderson escreveu:
>
> > > It's Storage Tank File System -- a shared filesystem type that IBM has
been
> > > talking about making for a couple of years.  It's supposed to allow
you to
> > > put a single filesystem on a large number of shared disks and have all
the
> > > processes on all those systems access the filesystem as if they were
all on
> > > one big system.  But those disks contain only data blocks.  Metadata
is
> > > kept behind a server which is accessed via conventional network
interfaces.
>
> > Isn't this what Peter Braam's Lustre FS is doing? http://www.lustre.org
>
> Yes, sounds very similar indeed.
In lustre we have network connection between client and data servers, where
as STFS  is similar to CXFS from SGI

Regards
Girish