--- Andreas Dilger <adilger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jul 09, 2006 22:23 -0700, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote: > > Our team want to develop a distributed file > system, a > > file system like NFS or in other words a remote > file > > access system. > > First you need to explain why you want to develop a > new distributed file system? What is wrong with any > of the existing filesystems? Hello All, Thanks for the reply. Basically we want to move towards developing a fail-over and high performance cluster file system. Although in the simplest design in which there will be a master server and a backup server. Therefore we first have to figure out the issues involved in a distributed file system (single server and multiple clients). You may have noticed earlier that I had asked questions regarding the definition of a cluster file system. This was for the same reason. > > > Since both linux and fs (especially a distributed > one) > > are new to me, I want help in this regard that how > I > > start this development of a prototype and which > > documents/books to study for this purpose. > > This is by no means an easy task to start with. How > about > fixing some bug or simple feature to implement on an > existing filesystem (even a local one) before > tackling > the hardest problem first? > > Cheers, Andreas > -- > Andreas Dilger > Principal Software Engineer > Cluster File Systems, Inc. Thanks, Uzair Lakhani, Karachi, Pakistan. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at > http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
