On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Eranga Udesh wrote: > Hi All, > > With further investigation I managed to shortlist the file systems that I > can (as I hope) in this environment. Now the problem is to coose the correct > one. I will publish the list, so if anybody know their prons and crons, > please advise me. > > 1. GFS (www.globalfilesystems.org) - commercial product, seems very > interesting > 2. InterMezzo (www.inter-mezzo.org) - somewhat new comer, has some > interesting developments coming up > 3. Coda (http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu) - Excellent, but no news about > co-existance with Cyrus Mail Spool > 4. Parallel Virtual File System (http://www.parl.clemson.edu/pvfs) - > Excellent, but no news about co-existance with Cyrus Mail Spool > > Thanks in advance, > Eranga >
I'm not an expert, but don't 2. and 3. both have a last-close-wins semantic opposed to the last-write-wins found on local (UNIX) filesystems? Doesn't this raise issues when a shared file is been updated? .TM.
