[ale] GFS for winders?

[Greg Freemyer]

To my surprise, I don't even see Veritas offering a cluster file
system for windows.  (I didn't look that hard.)

Greg

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've experimented (with excellent success) using GFS to make a majority of a
> drive partition part of a office LAN shared filesystem. Great for
> distributed backups! All clients share out a chunk of their hard drive
> (50%+) and GFS (or gluster, or moosefs, or...) handles the file bits. Now
> backups can happen automagically to the big share, _or_ it can be the ~ dir
> for everyone (assuming no giant files of high throughput stuff like video
> editing, etc).
>
> Is there such a thing as this for the poor folks in stuck in winders land?
>
> other than a cobbled pile of cifs shares, with a cluster FS on top all
> shared back out with samba.
>
> Personally I like having all the winders systems be actually Linux systems
> with a vm running winders. Makes rebuilds a breeze and then the GFS stuff is
> happenin'.
>
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> --
> James P. Kinney III
> I would rather stumble along in freedom than walk effortlessly in chains.
>
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