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Re: Running several instances of an fs server...


From: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom
Subject: Re: Running several instances of an fs server...
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 11:19:43 -0500
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>   <Not necessarily on-topic> Maybe something like network storage
> device access?  Maybe a filesystem server who used a
> network-accessible store could turn out to be better than nfs.  Just a
> thought.

        are you thinking of something like the linux Network Block Device,
or something higher-level, like GFS?

>   <Even more not necessarily on-topic> If there turn out to be good
> reasons why multiple users would want write access to the same file
> hierarchy without clobbering each others' work, probably shadowfs will
> be the way to do it.

        GFS lets you do some things like this; but maybe that's not the
answer you're looking for.

www.globalfilesystem.org (commercial version)
www.opengfs.org (GPLed branch... kind of stagnant, from what I've heard).

Carl Soderstrom.
-- 
Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com



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