From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: NFS as a Cluster File System. Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:50:19 +0100 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030109215019.GN2437@marowsky-bree.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Return-path: Received: from gate.in-addr.de ([212.8.193.158] helo=mx.in-addr.de) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18WkZp-0000gm-00 for ; Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:51:01 -0800 To: Lorn Kay , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-ha@muc.de In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On 2003-01-09T19:39:50, Lorn Kay said: > Is NFS a viable CFS? (I'm cross posting this due to a discussion on the the > linux-ha list recently.) NFS might be a viable system for making content available in a cluster, given a highly available NFS sever (not that easy to do right, actually) and provided that the bandwidth and latency is good enough for you; file locking might also be a problem. However, it is NOT a "CFS", which people commonly use to refer to a filesystem which is distributed and usually shares the same storage system connected to all nodes. I believe there might be a confusion of words here ;-) Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br?e -- Principal Squirrel SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs