Re: file systems for linux clusters...
Manish Gupte wrote:
>
> Hi !
>
> we are planning to set up a linux cluster.
> We intend to store a large amount of data on it. we
> would need multiple passes of the database for the
> algorithm that would run on the cluster.
>
If you're going to make some passes on a database, you
might want something more than a distributed file system.
Have a look at the parallel I/O lib in LAM distribution,
it has a debian package.
> Can anyone suggest which file system we could use?
> how is the file system plugged into linux?
You could use GFS, PVFS and other older stuff, but those
would not address the parallel application you suggest.
Thanks,
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Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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