Re: single writer/multi reader multi host FS

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 19 Aug 1997 23:03:25 +0100 (BST)


> 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.

Sounds like a netapp. Actually all the web folks I know are using tools
like rsync and the Linux ones are begging for omirr and 2.2 ;)