We're thinking about replacing GFS2 with XFS, but I wanted suggestions; there are now about 30,000 files in the root of ... of storage are you using for your cluster now? I'd be interested in ...

This would allow VMFS to become the de-facto VM cluster file system standard for all hypervisors, not just VMWare's ESX. It should be noted that Microsoft will be releasing its own clustered ...

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Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there is an unused portion of varying size ...

The company today announced Symantec Enterprise for Hadoop, an add-on with which companies can add the platform’s Big Data analysis chops to their existing Symantec Cluster File System ...

Today Bright Computing announced support for the BeeGFS parallel file system into Bright Cluster Manager 8.0. BeeGFS, developed at the Fraunhofer Center for High Performance Computing in Germany and ...

I evaluated Linux-networked file systems to decide what networked file system(s) to adopt for our Linux Clusters. At this stage, we are experimenting with Linux and clustering technologies and trying ...

Red Hat GFS is the first third-party cluster file system supported by Oracle for RAC solutions on Linux. Previously, Oracle had only offered its own file system for Linux systems running RAC.

"The file system makes the database much easier to ... Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison will talk about the Linux file cluster software at his Linuxworld keynote Wednesday. The company has been ...

Oracle on Tuesday touted at the LinuxWorld conference that its Cluster File System 2 for Linux will be distributed with the Linux kernel, the software that forms the basis of Linux distributions.