Re: [Lustre-discuss] NFS vs Lustre

2009-08-29 Thread John K. Dawson
Lee, Thanks for posting this. I found the background and perspective very interesting. John John K. Dawson jkdaw...@gmail.com 612-860-2388 On Aug 29, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Lee Ward wrote: You seem to be correct. Nobody ever seems to contrast NFS with these super file systems solutions. That

Re: [Lustre-discuss] NFS vs Lustre

2009-08-29 Thread Lee Ward
You seem to be correct. Nobody ever seems to contrast NFS with these super file systems solutions. That is interesting. It's Saturday, the family is out running around. I have time to think about this question. Unfortunately, for you, I do this more for myself. Which means this is going to be a st

Re: [Lustre-discuss] NFS vs Lustre

2009-08-29 Thread Mag Gam
Lustre is a parallel filesystem where NFS is not. The advantage of NFS is its native for many Unix systems and is widely available. The advantage of Lustre is its performance. GPFS is a parallel fileysystem very similar to Lustre but its backed by IBM. It runs on AIX and Linux. Its good but costl