On Tue, Oct 09, 2001 at 05:05:35PM -0400, Sven G Hyberts wrote:
> Dear Eric,
>
> Thanks for all the activity my question produced! I starting to
> grasp the problems with a fast, distributed, file-system! I also have
> come to realize really how good XFS is!
>
> I made a couple of attempts to get GFS on a Linux machine. It
> turned out to quite hard - and once I got it through the compiler, I get
> the notice that several functions are not defined. Maybe I give it
> another attempt - yet after realizing that it is a non-journaling file
> system format, the lure isn't as "shiny" any more...
I haven't tried GFS lately but it was pretty easy to get going
except for the stomith. However stability was a different issue.
I was using GFS 4.0.X under Alpha and could bring it down easy.
I have no experience with Intel or the latest GFS.
You can buy support from them. Maybe the cost is reasonable if you
aren't trying to do too much.
>
> I do not have enough money to check out SANergy from Tivoli -
> after all, it seem to be the only product around currently that is
> available cross-platform for SGI and Linux(RedHat). Still, it seem a bit
> as an NFS wrap more than a real product.
>
> Left is CXFS - if this is as good as XFS, it is most likely a
> great product. Yet, the price level still seem unreasonable for a
> non-critical environment, and currently there is no Linux release. If
> there would be a way to come in contact with someone who could respond to
> my concerns around CXFS, it would be greatly appreciated.
IBM has recently released GPFS for Linux. It doesn't appear to
just be a software solution as you have to buy their SAN and other
equipement. A cool feature though is it looks to have a fowarding
file system running over myrinet to provide high performance IO to
all nodes of the cluster. Looks pricey though.
ADIC has a product called CentraVision File System (CVFS). IT is
a shared filesystem that came from the SGI world. They have been
improving it and porting it to other platforms. It does support
Linux/Intel 2.4.X. I think it is available now. I haven't checked
lately. I don't know the cost though.
Craig
>
> Sincerely,
> ________________________________________________________________________
> Sven G. Hyberts, Ph.D Research Associate
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