For all of you that missed the talk on GFS a few months ago, here's your second change. All TCLUG members are invited to this TCSA meeting this Thursday night. Seating might be limited, so you should probably get there a little early. And for all of you beer drinkers, the TCSA usually goes out for a few afterwards. Dave Bianchi wrote: > > The Twin Cities System Administrators (TCSA) group meets monthly to > discuss topics of interest to system and network administrators in > the Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The meetings are free and open to > the public. Check out our web site at http://www.tcsa.org/ > > TCSA meetings are on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00 pm. > > Next Meeting: > > Topic: GFS and Linux Storage Clustering > Speaker: Matthew T. O'Keefe, Sistina Software > Date/Time: October 19, 2000 7:00 pm > Location: University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy) > > Synopsis: > > The Global File System (GFS) is a shared disk cluster file > system for Linux. GFS supports journaling and recovery > from client failures. GFS cluster nodes physically share > the same storage by means of Fibre Channel or shared SCSI > devices. The file system appears to be local on each node > and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster. GFS > is fully symmetric, that is, all nodes are equal and there > is no server which may be a bottleneck or single point of > failure. GFS uses read and write caching while maintaining > full UNIX file system semantics. > > This talk will describe GFS and how it can be used to build > storage clusters based upon shared storage, and the impact > of storage clustering on application-level web and file > services. > > More information about GFS can be found at > http://www.globalfilesystem.org/ > > About the Speaker: > > Matthew O'Keefe received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering > from Purdue University in 1990. He taught and performed > research in storage systems and simulation at the University > of Minnesota until 2000, when he founded Sistina Software, a > company specializing in Linux storage management software. > > We will meet at University Park Plaza Office Building (Onvoy office), > 2829 University Ave. SE, in a conference room on the first floor of > the building. > > Tentative Meeting Schedule > > November 16, 2000 LISA paper preview, Steven Levy > December 21, 2000 Cancelled > January 18, 2001 LISA 2000 Highlights > > Directions to University Park Plaza (Onvoy): > > The Onvoy office is at University Park Plaza Office Building, 2829 > University Ave. SE. It is a white-concrete, 9-story, hexagonal > building (previously occupied by Group Health). The windows are > distinctive, shaped somewhat like TV screens. University Park Plaza > is on the north side of University Ave. (across from the Octopus Car > Wash), about 3 blocks east of the intersection of Washington Ave. and > University Ave. or about 3 blocks west of KSTP-TV. > > - From the South (35W) > > Proceed north on 35W, exiting onto Interstate 94 East. Continue in > the far left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. > Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, > proceed 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. > > - From the North (35W) > > Proceed south on 35W, exiting onto Highway 280 South. Continue on > Highway 280 until the University Ave. exit. Turn right on University. > Continue 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. > > - From the West (94/394) > > Proceed east on 94, cross the Mississippi river and continue in the far > left lane on Interstate 94 East to the Highway 280 exit. Remain on > Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left on University, proceed > 7 blocks west to SE 29th Ave. The building is on your right. > > - From the East (94) > > Proceed west on 94, continue in the far right lane to the Highway 280 > exit. Remain on Highway 280 until University Ave. Turn left onto > University, proceed 7 blocks to SE 29th St. The building is on your > right. > > - Parking > > Free parking is available in the visitor lot off SE 29th Ave. and in > front of the building along University Ave. > > - Web map is at: http://www.onvoy.com/about_offices_upp.html > > For more information on TCSA, check out our web site: > > http://www.tcsa.org/ > > To subscribe to the TCSA mailing list (from a Unix system): > > echo "subscribe tcsa" | mailx majordomo at tcsa.org > > For any other information, please send email to: > > info at tcsa.org > > or contact: > > Dave Bianchi 651-644-7843 > > -- > Dave Bianchi Collective Technologies > djb at colltech.com A Pencom Company > djb at tc.umn.edu http://www.colltech.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org