Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file system and volume manager that executes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all major server and storage platforms supported by Red Hat. The leading (and first) cluster file system for Linux, Red Hat GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry adoption, broadest application support, and best price/performance of any Linux cluster file system today.
Red Hat GFS allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system on the SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and overhead of managing redundant data copies. Red Hat GFS has no single point of failure, is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications.
Red Hat GFS is tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and distributed through Red Hat Network. This simplifies software installation, updates, and management. Applications such as Oracle 9i RAC, and workloads in cluster computing, file, web, and email serving can become easier to manage and achieve higher throughput and availability with Red Hat GFS.
Highlights
Performance
Red Hat GFS helps Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers achieve high IO throughput for demanding applications in database, file, and compute serving. Performance can be incrementally scaled for hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using Red Hat GFS and storage area networks constructed with iSCSI or Fibre Channel.
Availability
Red Hat GFS has no single-point-of-failure: any server, network, or storage component can be made redundant to allow continued operations despite failures. In addition, Red Hat GFS has features that allow reconfigurations such as file system and volume resizing to be made while the system remains on-line to increase system availability. Red Hat Cluster Suite can be used with GFS to move applications in the event of server failure or for routine server maintenance.
Ease of Management
Red Hat GFS allows fast, scalable, high througput access to a single shared file system, reducing management complexity by removing the need for data copying and maintaining multiple versions of data to insure fast access. Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS, ES, and WS) and Cluster Suite, delivered via Red Hat Network, and supported by Red Hat's award winning support team, Red Hat GFS is the world's leading cluster file system for Linux.
Advanced features
Scalable to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers.
Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and delivered via Red Hat Network, comprehensive service offerings, up to 24x7 with one-hour response.
Supports Intel X86, Intel Itanium2, AMD AMD64, and Intel EM64T architectures.
Works with Red Hat Cluster Suite to provide high availability for mission-critical applications.
Quota system for cluster-wide storage capacity management.
Direct IO support allows databases to achieve high performance without traditional file system overheads.
Dynamic multi-pathing to route around switch or HBA failures in the storage area network.
Dynamic capacity growth while the file system remains on-line and available.
Can serve as a scalable alternative to NFS.
Product Information
Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS. Red Hat Cluster Suite support available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Support for a wide variety of Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area network products from leading switch, HBA, and storage array vendors.
Mature, industry-leading, field-proven, open source cluster file system.
Also, add a Wiki and a free blog system (jspwiki.org?) in addition to a few online games.
Could be quite a nice setup.
Could you setup your "community" and still gate to the internet? Have enough local content to be compelling while blocking access from the internet. Locals only bruddah!
Mod the parent up unless you just mod down anyone who thinkgs your favorite OS isn't already perfect.
Hmmm...Seems that using Java on FreeBSD is a "at your own risk" proposition right now.
This is made very clear here:
http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/14.html
And here:
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.ht ml
If this is no longer the case, then these pages need to get updated so that people won't get scared away from using FreeBSD+Java combination.
I'm sure someone will post about "it works fine, they're being overly caution/conservative" but it sure would be nice if there were more quantatative replies about this (such as FreeBSD+Java passing certain test suites, etc.)
BTW, I like FreeBSD. It never crashed on me (3.x and 4.x) while Linux had several times. But I use Linux because of better Java support.
This has gotten really, really offtopic. I have a pet peeve; this was a point onto which I could latch. I don't really have an issue with you, just with the word.
No offense taken. Actually, I find it funny that more attention went to the vocabulary than the idea in the post... but everyone apparently understood the meaning.;)
btw, I quoted "stick-to-it-ness" to ensure nobody would think it was a real word. Apparently it didn't work. (heh)
Exactly. Smart is important but discipline more so. If you can't finish something, you'll never succeed at anything. And this "stick-to-it-ness" is what you'll learn in college (if you can finish it).
Why did I have to take 3 semesters of calculus, then 2 semesters of calc based stats, etc? Was it because all computer science folks need to know how to calculate volume under a curve?
No. It is to teach you how to think, how to stick with something and to finish it.
If you are as smart as you think you are, add discipline and the world is your oyster.
Agreed. The original poster has no idea how expensive it is to fund theoretical drug research, much less bringing that same drug to a safe, usable prodcut.
Would be easy enough to check though... I'm not suggesting that arrest all the unpatched machines, merely that the unpatched machine list be used as a starting point.
If the Powers That Be want to chase down copyright violators, here's their target.
When MS stops letting illegal license keys get patches, those machines will be easy to spot. They will the machines running port scanners, DOS attacks and sending out spam 24/7.
Working from the theory that the same types of people who pirate an operating system would also pirate MP3s and movies, here is where the MPAA and DCMA (spelling?) authorites can focus their efforts.
Image it first, because no matter what you do, someone will somehow find a way to trash it or release a virus or the hard drive will crash or lightning will strike it or....
It's Debian based and the hardware detection (for my laptop) was perfect. That's a first for a Linux distro. Power management ~and~ wireless w/o no kernel compiles!:)
If only I didn't have such a crappy video card in it...
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Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file system and volume manager that executes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all major server and storage platforms supported by Red Hat. The leading (and first) cluster file system for Linux, Red Hat GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry adoption, broadest application support, and best price/performance of any Linux cluster file system today.
Red Hat GFS allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers to simultaneously read and write to a single shared file system on the SAN, achieving high performance and reducing the complexity and overhead of managing redundant data copies. Red Hat GFS has no single point of failure, is incrementally scalable from one to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers, and works with all standard Linux applications.
Red Hat GFS is tightly integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and distributed through Red Hat Network. This simplifies software installation, updates, and management. Applications such as Oracle 9i RAC, and workloads in cluster computing, file, web, and email serving can become easier to manage and achieve higher throughput and availability with Red Hat GFS.
Highlights
Performance
Red Hat GFS helps Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers achieve high IO throughput for demanding applications in database, file, and compute serving. Performance can be incrementally scaled for hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using Red Hat GFS and storage area networks constructed with iSCSI or Fibre Channel.
Availability
Red Hat GFS has no single-point-of-failure: any server, network, or storage component can be made redundant to allow continued operations despite failures. In addition, Red Hat GFS has features that allow reconfigurations such as file system and volume resizing to be made while the system remains on-line to increase system availability. Red Hat Cluster Suite can be used with GFS to move applications in the event of server failure or for routine server maintenance.
Ease of Management
Red Hat GFS allows fast, scalable, high througput access to a single shared file system, reducing management complexity by removing the need for data copying and maintaining multiple versions of data to insure fast access. Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (AS, ES, and WS) and Cluster Suite, delivered via Red Hat Network, and supported by Red Hat's award winning support team, Red Hat GFS is the world's leading cluster file system for Linux.
Advanced features
Scalable to hundreds of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. Integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 and delivered via Red Hat Network, comprehensive service offerings, up to 24x7 with one-hour response. Supports Intel X86, Intel Itanium2, AMD AMD64, and Intel EM64T architectures. Works with Red Hat Cluster Suite to provide high availability for mission-critical applications. Quota system for cluster-wide storage capacity management. Direct IO support allows databases to achieve high performance without traditional file system overheads. Dynamic multi-pathing to route around switch or HBA failures in the storage area network. Dynamic capacity growth while the file system remains on-line and available. Can serve as a scalable alternative to NFS. Product Information Supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS, ES, and WS. Red Hat Cluster Suite support available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. Support for a wide variety of Fibre Channel and iSCSI storage area network products from leading switch, HBA, and storage array vendors. Mature, industry-leading, field-proven, open source cluster file system.
hmmm.... (ponders the ethical dillema)....
Anyone know why Trillian isn't paying for use? Have Yahoo and company offered?
And banking applications. When my wife can run Quicken and do online bill paying in Linux, then I can move her machine over completely.
Number one way to motivate an unproductive employee.
How well can you estimate time and set project schedules. (You know this can't be done exactly... if he doesn't know, you don't want him)
Why did he lose (or leave) his or her last job? (Double check on this one... it's IMPORTANT)
How many of their former employees will want to follow them to this job?
Annual reviews? Good or bad? How are they done? A form or "free form"?
Do hours worked matter or is getting the job done more important?
Comp time or bonuses (or anything) to make up for overtime needed at deadlines?
cuz it died w/out the E450! ;)
Thanks
Anyone think that it's too slow?
Can you setup the concept, use a bootable CD distro (Knoppix?), and then layer on a Mesh network (see Google) so that you can have a larger community?
Also, add a Wiki and a free blog system (jspwiki.org?) in addition to a few online games.
Could be quite a nice setup.
Could you setup your "community" and still gate to the internet? Have enough local content to be compelling while blocking access from the internet. Locals only bruddah!
Hmmm...Seems that using Java on FreeBSD is a "at your own risk" proposition right now.
This is made very clear here:
http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/14.html
And here:
http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/jdk14.ht ml
If this is no longer the case, then these pages need to get updated so that people won't get scared away from using FreeBSD+Java combination.
I'm sure someone will post about "it works fine, they're being overly caution/conservative" but it sure would be nice if there were more quantatative replies about this (such as FreeBSD+Java passing certain test suites, etc.)
BTW, I like FreeBSD. It never crashed on me (3.x and 4.x) while Linux had several times. But I use Linux because of better Java support.
Boy, and I thought the Mac crowd was rabid!
Anyone know if the lockup is solved with 1.4.2?
The current release of the JDK and JRE available via the FreeBSD Foundation is 1.3.1
1.3.1 is ~not~ current.
It probably is just Sun not supporting the platform but it still impacts usability.
Until the BSDs get current Java support, I can't use it.
No offense taken. Actually, I find it funny that more attention went to the vocabulary than the idea in the post... but everyone apparently understood the meaning. ;)
btw, I quoted "stick-to-it-ness" to ensure nobody would think it was a real word. Apparently it didn't work. (heh)
Exactly. Smart is important but discipline more so. If you can't finish something, you'll never succeed at anything. And this "stick-to-it-ness" is what you'll learn in college (if you can finish it).
Why did I have to take 3 semesters of calculus, then 2 semesters of calc based stats, etc? Was it because all computer science folks need to know how to calculate volume under a curve?
No. It is to teach you how to think, how to stick with something and to finish it.
If you are as smart as you think you are, add discipline and the world is your oyster.
Agreed. The original poster has no idea how expensive it is to fund theoretical drug research, much less bringing that same drug to a safe, usable prodcut.
I'm glad they told me it was famous... I didn't have any idea what it is!
Also, there was just a little satire in there. ;)
When MS stops letting illegal license keys get patches, those machines will be easy to spot. They will the machines running port scanners, DOS attacks and sending out spam 24/7.
Working from the theory that the same types of people who pirate an operating system would also pirate MP3s and movies, here is where the MPAA and DCMA (spelling?) authorites can focus their efforts.
Image it first, because no matter what you do, someone will somehow find a way to trash it or release a virus or the hard drive will crash or lightning will strike it or....
It's Debian based and the hardware detection (for my laptop) was perfect. That's a first for a Linux distro. Power management ~and~ wireless w/o no kernel compiles! :)
If only I didn't have such a crappy video card in it...
After all, if you didn't change it in the first place, you'll probably never notice the "upgrade".
10 years ago, it might have worked but it's too late now.
Knoppix will store your config info on a USB drive, a hard drive, a zip drive, etc... and all from a GUI.
It's nice that Mandrake will as well, but Knoppix has been doing this for a while.