Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 16:22:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ Global Filesystem ] a thought to mull over ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005101621140.27652-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <20000510165139.Q28180@fw.wintelcom.net>
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> > Re-reading it I was wrong it does seem to be some sort of network > filesystem, the way they phrase: > > > What is GFS? > > The Global File System (GFS) allows multiple Linux machine to > share storage devices over a network. Each machine sees the > network disks as local, and GFS itself appears as a local file > system. Writes to a file by one Linux machine are seen by another > machine that later reads that file. > > Looked like a vn device over NFS except using some special protocol > instead of NFS, basically only one client can see a filesystem at > a time. No, it's a shared simultaneous access filesystem. That's the whole point of DLOCKs (which can be in hardware, or via a DLM). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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