rturnbull wrote:
Hello,
I sent in a question before about SAN connecting multiple nodes to
same shared disk.
I have been doing some reading and came across GPFS (Global Parallel
File System). Since I have all this shinny new ibm hardware, is this a
"free" software filesystem? Anyone heard of or used this technology?
Ryan,
GPFS is not free software (neither free as in beer nor freedom). It
does run on a number of distros. All kinds of information are at:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/clusters/software/gpfs.html
The Frequently Asked Questions link on that page
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/clresctr/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.cluster.gpfs.doc/gpfs_faqs/gpfs_faqs.html
has pointers to distro, pricing, and other info, if at this point you're
still interested.
Lots of free GPFS tuning, performance and other information is available
(free for download) via IBM Redbooks. Go to
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
and put "GPFS" in the Search box and look around for what's interesting
to you.
Let me know.
Ryan
--
Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
Peter
--
Peter R. Badovinatz aka 'Wombat' -- IBM Linux Technology Center
preferred: tabmowzo@xxxxxxxxxx / alternate: wombat@xxxxxxxxxx
These are my opinions and absolutely not official opinions of IBM, Corp.
--
Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
