I would love to get an education here. From usage model point of view, what is the difference between a "parallel file system" and a "cluster file system" ? i.e., when to use a parallel file system and when to use a cluster file system ? .. Wendy On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Rafa Grimán <rafagriman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi :) > > On Monday 24 January 2011 21:25 Wendy Cheng wrote >> Sometime ago, the following was advertised: >> >> "ZFS is not a native cluster, distributed, or parallel file system and >> cannot provide concurrent access from multiple hosts as ZFS is a local >> file system. Sun's Lustre distributed filesystem will adapt ZFS as >> back-end storage for both data and metadata in version 3.0, which is >> scheduled to be released in 2010." >> >> You can google "Lustre" to see whether their plan (built Lustre on top >> of ZFS) is panned out. > > > But Lustre isn't a clustered filesystem, it's a parallel filesystem. Similar to > pNFS, PanFS, ... Comparing GFS to Lustre wouldn't be quite right. > > Rafa > > -- > "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." > > Happily using KDE 4.5.4 :) > > -- > Linux-cluster mailing list > Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster > -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
