Re: [TCLUG:15246] Re: [TCLUG-ANNOUNCE:62] Meeting speaker for TCLUG meeting on April 8thy

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

Matt O'Keefe wrote:
>what about a talk on the Global File System:
>www.globalfilesystem.org
>a linux cluster file system being developed at the U of MN.

        I'd certainly like to see that. I've followed GFS a *little* bit; so
it'd be cool to see a full presentation on it. :)

on a related note; have you considered adding data compression to your
filesystem? this is probably less useful for your fibre-channel environment;
but what about filesystems distributed over lower-bandwidth links (10Mbps
shared, DSL, POTS dial-up...).

rsync has a compression option; and at least according to it's own
statistics, this speeds up transfers even between disks on the same bus. (is
there a way to test this independently with bonnie?)

Carl Soderstrom
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