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Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:20:24 +0300
From: Oleg Drokin <green@clusterfs.com>
To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: [0/9] Lustre VFS patches for 2.6
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Hello!

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 11:41:58AM -0400, John Richard Moser wrote:

> Interesting, but what exactly does this do?  Extra performance?  How?
> Extra security?  Avoid deadlocks?

These are just kernel bits necessary for Lustre to work.
Without lustre there should be no noticeable difference.
Lustre is a cluster filesystem and you can get more info about it at
http://www.lustre.org

Bye,
    Oleg