From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.x write_super is not for syncing
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:36:01 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021205103601.GA23972@conectiva.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFC232B66E.7F2B33A8-ON87256C85.00756DF7-88256C85.007A7036@boulder.ibm.com>
Em Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 02:17:40PM -0800, Bryan Henderson escreveu:
>
> >What is STFS, btw?
>
> 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.
> Clients of that metadata server aggressively cache metadata in order to
> provide performance equivalent to local filesystems
> in usual cases.
Alert: FS newbie talking.
Isn't this what Peter Braam's Lustre FS is doing? http://www.lustre.org
- Arnaldo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-05 10:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-16 18:00 [PATCH] 2.5.x write_super is not for syncing Chris Mason
2002-12-02 22:07 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-02 23:40 ` Chris Mason
2002-12-03 0:03 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-03 1:10 ` Chris Mason
2002-12-03 1:40 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-03 3:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-03 19:36 ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-03 20:06 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-03 21:41 ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-03 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-04 2:05 ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-04 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2002-12-04 19:00 ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-04 19:23 ` Matthew Wilcox
2002-12-04 22:17 ` Bryan Henderson
2002-12-05 10:36 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]
2002-12-05 16:31 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-12-05 17:24 ` girish
2002-12-04 21:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-12-04 22:46 ` Bryan Henderson
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