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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. Well.. by include($dysmas) · · Score: 0, Redundant

    bah!, i want my 25mb hdd from my Amiga 500+ back, at least i undestood the TLA's with that...

    ;)

  2. Darn! by tomcres · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I thought this was going to be about OS/2's HPFS! You don't see too many technical articles on OS/2 anymore... bummer! :-(

  3. You've been Sony'ed by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It may be a new file system, but chances are that Sony-BMG has already got it Root-Kitted.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  4. It has to be said.... by Nonillion · · Score: 1, Redundant

    1.6 petabytes ought to be enough for anyone......

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    "I bow to no man" - Riddick