The promise of a Linux client has been out there as long as CXFS has been
around as far as I recall. When is it going to materialize?
It has seemed strange to me that SGI can Support Solaris and Windows NT
with this environment but Linux support has never been made available.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:50:47AM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 10:43, N. Richard Solis wrote:
> > Is anyone working on adding clustering/SAN support to XFS on Linux?
> >
> > I was looking at the GFS software from Sistina and the OpenGFS project. I'm
> > wondering if it's possible to merge the codebases of XFS and OpenGFS to
> > provide the clustering functionality on XFS. Am I crazy?
>
> Go look for CXFS on SGI's home page. There will be something available
> for Linux, but it will not be open source, and what parts of it are
> available for hardware other than SGI's is under discussion.
>
> Steve
>
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