nfs opinion

[Bohn Christopher A Capt AFRL/IFSD]

There is PVS at http://ece.clemson.edu/parl/pvfs/

Haven't tried it, but it appears to address this.
cb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josip Loncaric [mailto:josip@icase.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 9:32 AM
> To: Rajeev Thakur
> Cc: pdgtech@wantree.com.au; beowulf@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov;
> martindg@cse.unsw.edu.au; tony@ktb.com.au
> Subject: Re: nfs opinion
> 
> 
> Rajeev Thakur wrote:
> > 
> > The bottom line is we need a real parallel file system for Linux
> > clusters. NFS is not the solution.
> 
> Agreed.  Also, it should be a 64-bit parallel file system (no 
> funny 2GB
> file size limits).  A top candidate would be a Linux variant of Intel
> Paragon's Parallel File System (PFS).   See
> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/pario/ for more info on parallel I/O.
> 
> Josip
> 
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