Thanks for the info. =============================================== David Coornaert (dcoorna at dbm.ulb.ac.be) Belgian Embnet Node (http://www.be.embnet.org) Université Libre de Bruxelles Laboratoire de Bioinformatique 12, Rue des Professeurs Jeener & Brachet 6041 Gosselies BELGIQUE Tél: +3226509975 Fax: +3226509998 =============================================== Tim Cutts wrote: > > On 30 Aug 2005, at 2:02 pm, david coornaert wrote: > >> Which of these PVFS2 Lustre GPFS have some level of redundancy ? > > > GPFS can be configured to store two copies of all the data (which > helps read performance too, since it gives an extra path to the data). > > Lustre stores everything as RAID5, so I understand, and the metadata > servers are in pairs, so there's plenty of redundancy there. Don't > know about PVFS2, but the consensus in our group is that it has less > redundancy. > > Tim > > -- > > Dr Tim Cutts > > Informatics Systems Group, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute > > GPG: 1024D/E3134233 FE3D 6C73 BBD6 726A A3F5 860B 3CDD 3F56 E313 4233 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >_______________________________________________ >Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org >https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bioclusters/attachments/20050830/6d4a08ac/attachment.html