“We have been reporting on high performance file systems for the
past few weeks, which quite naturally led us to look at Linux
clustering files systems. In the last three weeks, we have gone
over high performance Linux solutions from Cluster File Systems, HP
and IBM. I expect to look at several other high performance file
systems in the near future, but for now let’s take a break from
that and look at what is available for Linux users who don’t want
to deal with third-party providers.“I wrote a rationale for going with ‘proprietary’
implementations of the Linux file system in my previous
newsletter…”