On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 15:45 +0530, gaurav wrote: > I will like re-phrase my > original question .....Can I use a file system combine to storage spread > across machines (50 Linux machines in my case in my lab ) and use it > store files (rather than expensive NAS solution)..... is it possible > with GFS ?? or any other file system ?? Hi Gaurav, There are least three Linux-based distributed file systems that will do what you describe: - Red Hat GFS : http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/gfs/ - Lustre : http://clusterfs.com/ - PVFS / PVFS2 : http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs/ Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3@xxxxxxx ed@xxxxxxx URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
