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From: Brian Jackson <brian@mdrx.com>
To: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ha@muc.de
Subject: Re: NFS as a Cluster File System.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:04:07 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200301091604.07132.brian@mdrx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1DE570.7070207@emageon.com>

On Thursday 09 January 2003 03:11 pm, Brian Tinsley wrote:
> Lorn Kay wrote:
> > Is NFS a viable CFS? (I'm cross posting this due to a discussion on
> > the the linux-ha list recently.)
>
> Since there is not a really good cluster filesystem for Linux that is
> not either "half baked"

Hey, we're working on it ;)

--Brian Jackson
OpenGFS Project

> (IMHO - I'm probably going to get smacked over
> that statement!) or cost an arm and a leg, this is exactly the route we
> have taken.
>
> >     The NFS server is a high-quality dedicated machine (Net App, EMC,
> > etc.)
>
> We've had great success with just using SMP Linux servers. We do have
> one EMC IP4700 in production, and it's a nice system, but I prefer the
> Linux based alternative.
>
> >     Linux clients can use TCP instead of UDP.
>
> Although I haven't had problems with this in our lab, I believe the NFS
> authors still consider this experimental.



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  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-09 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-09 19:39 NFS as a Cluster File System Lorn Kay
2003-01-09 21:11 ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-09 22:04   ` Brian Jackson [this message]
2003-01-09 23:02     ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-09 21:29 ` Alan Robertson
2003-01-13 19:36   ` Neil Brown
2003-01-13 20:25     ` David B. Ritch
2003-01-13 20:40       ` Neil Brown
2003-01-13 20:50         ` David B. Ritch
2003-01-13 22:11           ` Neil Brown
2003-01-14 15:46     ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-14 16:01       ` Kumaran Rajaram
2003-01-14 16:08         ` Trond Myklebust
2003-01-09 21:50 ` Lars Marowsky-Bree
2003-01-09 23:09   ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-13  4:20 ` David B. Ritch
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-01-09 23:13 Lorn Kay
2003-01-10  3:34 ` Alan Cox

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