December 2003
Intermediate to advanced
458 pages
9h 3m
English
book
Deploying Linux on IBM eServer pSeries Clusters
by Dino Quintero, Prabhakar Attaluri, Tomas Baublys, Xinghong He, Chin Yau Lee, Francois Thomas
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Chapter 6. Getting started with GPFS
In this chapter, we provide a brief introduction to GPFS version 2.2 for Linux on pSeries. GPFS is a cluster file system that provides users with fast, consistent, and reliable shared access to files, cluster-wide. Implemented as the Virtual File System (VFS), GPFS supports the UNIX file interface so that applications need not be changed to take advantage of the new file system. Initially found only on AIX clusters, GPFS is now available across the whole cluster offering from IBM: AIX/pSeries, Linux/pSeries, and Linux/xSeries.
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