This blurb in the latest Kernel Traffic has some status information on
ext3 and ACLs that might be relevant. 12-18mo for a really stable
version, but version 0.02 is supposed (maybe already) to be out very
soon.
http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt19991011_38.html#2
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stephen waters
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Tom Kunz wrote:
>
> Hmm, well GFS isn't exactly an improvement on NBD, it's more like an
> entirely different filesystem type. I was talking with Simon Horman of
> VA-Research at Internet World in NYC this past week, and he feels that
> it'll be 12 to 18 months until we have ext3 and/or some other kind of
> nicely-working, network-distributed filesystem (such as GFS). I have
> some ideas for hacks to RAID-1 and the nbd drivers. I've contacted
> Pavel Machek, the original author of NBD, to see what he knows about
> other efforts underway with his NBD stuff. I will re-post to this list
> with whatever I find out from him. Seems there's some interest in this
> topic with people other than just me... ;)
> Tom
>
> "Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:
>
> > One is the GFS team at http://gfs.lcse.umn.edu/. The other hasn't
> > announced publicly yet.
> >
> > --Stephen
> >
>
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