Hi Frank -
Yes, SGI does offer an IA32 Linux CXFS client. Someone who can help you
should be contacting you shortly. The last two releases did not have
>2T support for the Linux client, but that should be on the horizon.
-Eric
On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 09:03, Frank Hellmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This is a bit off-topic, but has anybody come in contact with the CXFS
> client/implementation for Linux?
>
> We have a need for our render systems to get faster access to the
> original film frames to work on (from 12MB up to 50MB size per
> frame/file). A clustered filesystem might solve our current network
> bottleneck (Gbit Ethernet) and would make use of the existing
> fibrechannel infrastructure.
>
> I am most interested in actually how good and stable the linux client
> performs. Is there is any big device support (>2TB)?
>
> I would be really gratefull if somebody could point me to more detailed
> infos about CXFS than the marketing blurb on SGIs site...
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> Frank...
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