From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L4bGO-0005ET-P3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3B475E03D6; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.107]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92DCDE03E3 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:14:04 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApoEADA3KknLO65O/2dsb2JhbADQT4J8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.33,659,1220198400"; d="scan'208";a="405234206" Received: from unknown (HELO moriah.localdomain) ([203.59.174.78]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out2.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 24 Nov 2008 22:13:58 +0900 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01F113FDD72 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:13:57 +0900 (WST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at localdomain Received: from moriah.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (moriah.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id jYr44SCyhnl0 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:13:45 +0900 (WST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (rattus [192.168.1.2]) by moriah.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED29213206B1 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:13:45 +0900 (WST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems From: William Kenworthy To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200811241350.49582.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <9D03BEE4-C657-4433-8593-D9A7F1679A40@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <1227530646.26615.66.camel@rattus> <200811241350.49582.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Home in Perth! Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:13:45 +0900 Message-Id: <1227532425.26615.70.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1666fcae-14c3-4a6b-b913-91aabe5e0d81 X-Archives-Hash: c6ae7c139e8b71b280750a5b4266b1fc On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:50 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:44:06 schrieb William Kenworthy: > > > I set up an openmosix cluster once using dfs I think. It replicated > > data just like you want so each exported thread was seeing consistent > > file space. It did work, but had a few issues ... I think it was > > designed by MS being one :) > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_File_System_(Microsoft) > > I strongly doubt that you used MS DFS in a Linux based cluster. If it was > really DFS, then this one: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCE_Distributed_File_System. > > Both are totally different beasts. > > Bye... > > Dirk > Your right, it was mfs - I still had the relevant line in an fstab - must have been 3-4 years ago at least. #mfs /mfs mfs dfsa=1,noauto 0 0 Its the dfsa argument that confised my memory. BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!