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Scalability.org: The future of kernel-specific version subsystems

Gluster
2010-05-24

In this blog post, Joe Landman, discusses the future of kernel-specific version subsystems including Lustre, Xen, OFED, and Gluster.

Here’s an excerpt:

“Gluster has a number of specific advantages over Lustre, including no centralized metadata server. But it also allows local mounting of the file system with no loss of performance. They have a translator to provide local file system scheduler preference called NUFA, that exploits this. You don’t need to use it, but you can.”

Read the full post on scalability.org

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