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On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 12:01, Anthony Brock wrote: > Interesting. Given this, should the openMosix project be planning to continue their MFS filesystem (which is currently scheduled for elimination in favor of OpenGFS)? > > Unfortunately, I'm not a developer. However, I am very interested in the progress and products of both projects. > > Tony Tony, Now is not the time to be making strategic decisions (pro or con). Once Redhat's plans become public, the long term future of OpenGFS will be decided. OpenGFS and GFS had a common codebase 2 or 3 three years ago, so they are not that different, ie. even if OpenGFS becomes unsupported, openMosix can use GFS. One of the biggest weaknesses in the currently released OpenGFS is that the lock server is a SPOF (single point of failure). (Eliminating SPOFs is the goal of the next major OpenGFS release series.) That may not be critical to Mosix, but I assume that a solution without a SPOF is preferred. Hopefully a future release (this summer?) of OpenGFS will support OpenDLM in order to (optionally) eliminate this SPOF. Before this could happen OpenDLM needed a significant amount of work, so it became the focus of effort. HTH Greg -- Greg Freemyer ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Opengfs-users mailing list Opengfs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opengfs-users