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To: Yudong Gao <stgyd@umich.edu>
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Subject: Re: Supported cluster file system in v4.1
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On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:14:09AM -0700, Yudong Gao wrote:
> Hi Benny,
> 
> Thanks a lot for the reply! I will check exofs.
> 
> We are looking for a block-based cluster file system that can be
> deployed on top of a cluster of commodity machines and can use the
> machines' local storage instead of using a SAN. We find that OCFS2 is
> a good candidate.

As far as I can tell OCFS2 and GFS2 are identical in their requirement
for a shared disk.

--b.

> Is it possible to use OCFS2 as the storage server in
> pNFS?