cluster fs

[Rob Ross]

Martin,

The XFS code that was released did not include the cluster portion of
their code.  It might make a good file system on which to store data that
is then made available to the cluster via some other means (eg. NFS).

I have not personally used the file system yet.

Rob
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Rob Ross, Parallel Architecture Research Lab, Clemson University

On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Martin Siegert wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Jul 2000, Alexander Korenkov wrote:
> 
> > Could you advice me - what is the best file system for clusters?
> > If this cluster is homogeneous (Linux).
> 
> What about XFS?
> 
> >From http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs :
> 
> "Source Code:
> 
>  A complete linux 2.4.0-test1 tree including the XFS filesystem is available
>  for cvs checkout. 
> 
>  The code is pre-Beta quality and although the basic functionality is
>  operational, it may hang or crash your machine."
> 
> I've used XFS only under IRIX.
> Has anybody tried it under Linux?
> Is it usable already?
> 
> 
> Martin Siegert
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