Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] mount flag "direct" | Date | Tue, 3 Sep 2002 20:44:08 +0200 |
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On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:02, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Actually, we are using ext3 pretty much as-is for our backing-store > for Lustre. The same is true of InterMezzo, and NFS, for that matter. > All of them live on top of a standard "local" filesystem, which doesn't > know the things that happen above it to make it a network filesystem > (locking, etc).
To put this in simplistic terms, this works because you treat the underlying filesystem simply as a storage device, a slightly funky kind of disk.
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