single writer/multi reader multi host FS

Larry McVoy (lm@neteng.engr.sgi.com)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 09:34:24 -0700 (PDT)


One of the trends I've noticed recently is people wanting to hook multiple
computers to a single disk (or logical volume, whatever). They want to be
able to

a) pass data through the file system
b) share the passed data
c) suffer performance only when contending for the same inode

Most of these folks are web or movie folks - the web people are typically
much smaller & many more files than the movie folks.

Has anyone given any thought to this area? Is there a mailing list?

--lm

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