Hi, On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:28, Alexander Spanke wrote: > sorry if i wrote things to cryptic, of course is gfs a filesystem in the > main terminology but from technical point of view, the detailed look it > is a big add on to NFS. NFS is needed for GFS, or RedHat modified it in > that sense but i don't believe it. I'm not sure where you got that idea, but NFS is not needed for GFS. GFS and NFS are totally different beasts. NFS is a network-based filesystem using a client and a server; GFS is a disk-based journaling filesystem allowing peers to access a shared disk with no server. They could hardly be more different! --Stephen