From: Brian Jackson <brian@mdrx.com>
Subject: Re: NFS as a Cluster File System.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 16:04:07 -0600
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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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