Distributed file system
Stephen C. Tweedie
sct at redhat.com
Fri Feb 25 14:26:16 UTC 2005
Hi,
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:28, Alexander Spanke wrote:
> sorry if i wrote things to cryptic, of course is gfs a filesystem in the
> main terminology but from technical point of view, the detailed look it
> is a big add on to NFS. NFS is needed for GFS, or RedHat modified it in
> that sense but i don't believe it.
I'm not sure where you got that idea, but NFS is not needed for GFS.
GFS and NFS are totally different beasts. NFS is a network-based
filesystem using a client and a server; GFS is a disk-based journaling
filesystem allowing peers to access a shared disk with no server. They
could hardly be more different!
--Stephen
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