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IBM's High Performance File System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-who-will-use-it dept.

HoosierPeschke writes "BetaNews is running a story about IBM's new file system, General Parallel File System (GPFS). The short and skinny is that the new file system attained a 102 Gigabyte per second transfer rate. The size of the file system is also astonishing at 1.6 petabytes (petabyte == 1,024 terabytes). IBM has up a page with more information and specs on the system.."

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  1. Bad Article Title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought this article was going to be about IBM's HPFS from OS/2.

  2. Re:since the /. blurb doesn't explain it... by Amouth · · Score: 5, Funny

    root@ibm$rm - r *

    humm that was quick

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  3. Re: 10 Tbytes? by KDan · · Score: 5, Funny

    You puny geekling. It's been years since I migrated my enormous collection of pr0n to my petabyte array...

    Running out of space too... maybe I should build a beowulf cluster of them.

    Daniel

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  4. Re:Well.... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    Atleast someone can make a new filesystem... *cough* Microsoft *cough*

    Oh, come now. They just finished winning their latest legal round on FAT

    Give them a moment to catch their breath, will you?

    introducing OrigamiFS, you write it out on paper then fold it in half as many times as you can

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