From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.x write_super is not for syncing Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 08:36:01 -0200 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20021205103601.GA23972@conectiva.com.br> References: <20021204192358.T27991@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Andrew Morton , "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" , Chris Mason , "Stephen C. Tweedie" Return-path: To: Bryan Henderson Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org 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