On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Joseph L. Casale <jcasale@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> A. Because it breaks the flow and reads backwards. > >> Q. Why is top posting considered harmful? > > Hope that was informative:) > jlc > I don't have any intention to start a flame and/or religion war. However, I'm hoping people could relax a little bit about this "rule", if it is a rule at all ... Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting to see what it says. You may find it interesting. At the same time, I don't see comparing performance numbers between parallel filesystem and cluster filesystem is a bad practice. After all, I see users and IT shops comparing NFS and GFS numbers from time to time (as a way to decide which one to use). The bottome line is "I have a storage box and I want to access it from different machines, which one is the best solution for me and lets get the capacity estimated". -- Wendy -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster