>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. No war to start:) I had always top posted as a kid before I started using usenet and mailing lists. I was corrected and saw it was logical, also the ways where in place long before I came along but they do make sense. A few times I gave up helping as following along in a thread was too hard. Not worth my effort... >At the same time, I don't see comparing performance numbers between >parallel filesystem and cluster filesystem is a bad practice. Sure, so long as you know the use case and scenarios etc. Often we see people doing things like exporting an ext formatted block dev w/ an iscsi target to multiple clients, so maybe the knee-jerk reaction with an odd comparo like that is an attempt to "inform". If that _actual_ comparison is of value to you, so be it... >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". Most of us would compare a cluster to a cluster, or an apple to an apple:) I suppose you could phrase the question: "I need to export data, every option is possible, I can cluster, or not, give me #'s" but we digress... -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
