First Unofficial GFS deb Packages

Martin writes "Angelo Ovidi from XFDeb project released the first unofficial deb kernel packages supporting Global File System (GFS recently open source from RedHat) on a 2.6.8.1 vanilla kernel and all the set of utilities for GFS clustering (GULM, CCS, etc). The kernel was patched using the most recent CVS stuff from RedHat and it seems stable. I have tested on some servers. It has GNBD integrated in a monolithic way and it's ok. You can find all the stuff at xfdeb.sourceforge.net." In particular, here are kernel packages and GFS related packages.

What's GFS?

[Julian Morrison]

What does it do?

Re:What's GFS?

[shfted!]

It's a Great Feature, Silly. Whatever it does, I want it now!

GFS is...

[FooAtWFU]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [wikipedia.org]:

GFS stands for Global File System. It is a system of storing files on a computer [wikipedia.org]. Specifically, it is a cluster file system [wikipedia.org] implementation. Each computer, called nodes, could share with GFS the same file system. Reads and writes are coherent and synchronized at the file system cache level of each cluster nodes.

What is GFS?

[LWATCDR]

Well here is more info Redhat GFS [redhat.com] knock youself out.