[Bioclusters] NFS / SMC switches / GFS

[david coornaert]

Thanks for the info.

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Tim Cutts wrote:

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> On 30 Aug 2005, at 2:02 pm, david coornaert wrote:
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>> Which of these PVFS2 Lustre GPFS have some level of redundancy ?
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> Tim
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