FW: [Beowulf] file IO benchmark

[Craig Tierney]

Chris Samuel wrote:

>On Monday 28 November 2005 21:04, Joachim Worringen wrote:
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>>as far as I understood, some modifications to the file system *are*
>>required to make it match with the consistency semantics of the Terragrid
>>iSCSI target. Therefore, the descriptions I read always state that you can
>>run ext2 via Terragrid, and nothing else. Are other file systems available
>>now?
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>I was under the impression that TerraGrid was using GPFS, see:
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>  http://www.teragrid.org/userinfo/guide_data_storage_gpfswan.php
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>and
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>  http://teragrid.ncsa.uiuc.edu/TechSummary/
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>cheers!
>Chris
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As Greg Lindahl pointed out, it is a parallel filesystem.  Terragrid now
supports XFS.  Filesystems are no longer limited to 16 TB as it was
with ext2, but can grow to 8 Exabytes.

Craig