From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Incite into reiser5? Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 16:53:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4318C9E8.80804@slaphack.com> References: <1125596442.5207.11.camel@jove> <1125685758.9150.8.camel@jove> <43189B26.2030602@slaphack.com> <873bonuurh.fsf@evinrude.uhoreg.ca> <4318AB3B.1090204@slaphack.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Lexington Luthor Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Lexington Luthor wrote: > David Masover wrote: > >> It has one. It's called Lustre. >> >> What Linux needs is good, distributed filesystem that runs on the 2.6 >> kernel, without users having to pay licensing fees. >> > > Lustre is expensive, but the -mm kernel now has ocfs (or is it ocfs2?) > as well as gfs. Don't know about ocfs, I'll look it up later. But, AFAIK, GFS is for things like ATA-over-ethernet, where you have multiple machines attached to the same hard drive -- not for situations where multiple machines each have their own drive, and you want them to appear as one logical drive.