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First Unofficial GFS deb Packages

Posted by timothy on from the curb-your-enthusiasm dept.

Martin writes "Angelo Ovidi from XFDeb project released the first unofficial deb kernel packages supporting Global File System (GFS recently open source from RedHat) on a 2.6.8.1 vanilla kernel and all the set of utilities for GFS clustering (GULM, CCS, etc). The kernel was patched using the most recent CVS stuff from RedHat and it seems stable. I have tested on some servers. It has GNBD integrated in a monolithic way and it's ok. You can find all the stuff at xfdeb.sourceforge.net." In particular, here are kernel packages and GFS related packages.

8 comments

  1. What's GFS? by Julian+Morrison · · Score: 2, Funny

    What does it do?

    1. Re:What's GFS? by shfted! · · Score: 1

      It's a Great Feature, Silly. Whatever it does, I want it now!

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  2. GFS is... by FooAtWFU · · Score: 3, Informative
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

    GFS stands for Global File System. It is a system of storing files on a computer. Specifically, it is a cluster file system implementation. Each computer, called nodes, could share with GFS the same file system. Reads and writes are coherent and synchronized at the file system cache level of each cluster nodes.

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  3. ROMIO (MPI-IO) for GFS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Anyone working on it? I'm sick of PVFS, and GFS looks nice for our cluster.

    1. Re:ROMIO (MPI-IO) for GFS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ROMIO, ROMIO, wherefore art thou ROMIO

  4. And we need to post a story about this, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Oh I see, Debian is actually ahead of the other distros for once.

  5. What is GFS? by LWATCDR · · Score: 1

    Well here is more info Redhat GFS knock youself out.

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