The Register: Inside Sun's new clusters; little competition for Linux?
Dec 04, 2000, 14:35 (5 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Andrew Orlowski)
"Sun Microsystems is expected to announce tomorrow the following
improvements to its Full Moon clusters: a new home-grown clustered
file system, failover to eight nodes as opposed to four, all based
on fibre channel, with improvements all round in manageability and
failover response times. A few technical showstoppers - such as
dynamic kernel patching - are thrown in for good measure."
"But does the world needs another proprietary cluster file
system - when free software projects such as the GFS
(GlobalFileSystem), Intermezzo and Lustre are making headway on
cheap Linux hardware?"
"Sun's goals appear to be tactical - feature-matching rivals
- rather than strategic. It differs in this respect from the Linux
crowd, which clearly has the storage business in its
sights."
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