Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Warp speed file serving with pNFS

pNFS splits the NFS file server into two types of servers: the metadata and control server; and as many storage servers as you can afford. Together the control server and the storage servers form a single logical NFS server with a slew of network connections. The compute server, which is likely to be a Beowulf cluster, also has plent

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