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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 18:15:45 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Peter T. Breuer wrote:

> The "big view" calculations indicate that we must have distributed
> shared writable data.

Agreed.  Note that the same big view also dictates that any such
solution must have good performance.

Do you need any more reasons for having special cluster filesystems
instead of trying to add clustering to already existing filesystems ?

regards,

Rik
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