Lustre File System Getting New Community Distro

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 14, 2011 @10:46AM from the cluster-buster-passes-muster dept.

darthcamaro writes "Oracle acquired a lot of open source tech from Sun that has since been forked — or is in the process of being forked. The open source Lustre high performance computing file system isn't on the list of forked projects, but it is getting a new, community-driven distro that is trying really hard to say that they're not officially a fork. 'Since April of 2010 there has been confusion in the community, and we've seen an impact in the business confidence in Lustre,' Brent Gorda, CEO and president of Whamcloud told InternetNews.com. 'The community has been asking for leadership, the commitment of a for-profit entity that they can rely on for support and a path forward for the technology.'"

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What is Lustre File System by Icyfire0573 · 2011-01-14 10:54 · Score: 5, Informative

From their website:
http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Main_Page
High Performance and Scalability
For the world's largest and most complex computing environments, the Lustre file system redefines high performance, scaling to tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of storage with groundbreaking I/O and metadata throughput.