On Jul 10, 2006 21:55 -0700, UZAIR LAKHANI wrote: > 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). I hate to state the obvious, but this is a VERY HARD PROBLEM. I may be biased in sugessing this, but why not spend your time and efforts in improving some existing cluster filesystem instead of spending 20 work years of effort just to get a decently usable system? That way, instead of the ever-popular process of having 20 mediocre implementations of something Linux instead gains a small number of very good implementations? Possible targets of your efforts might include OCFS2, Lustre, GFS2. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Principal Software Engineer Cluster File Systems, Inc. - 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
