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From: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
To: Yudong Gao <stgyd@umich.edu>
Cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Supported cluster file system in v4.1
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:46:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100623184620.GD28346@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimvyf-KbN-XWkawxp3SHG_WgHJ_sBXnlJjWMIjM@mail.gmail.com>

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?

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-06-23 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-16 17:17 Supported cluster file system in v4.1 Yudong Gao
2010-06-23  6:49 ` Benny Halevy
2010-06-23 17:14   ` Yudong Gao
2010-06-23 17:33     ` Andy Adamson
2010-06-23 18:46     ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]

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