Scalability and failure recovery in a linux cluster file system

Authors:
Kenneth W. Preslan;Andrew Barry;Jonathan Brassow;Michael Declerck;A. J. Lewis;Adam Manthei;Ben Marzinski;Erling Nygaard;Seth Van Oort;David Teigland;Mike Tilstra;Steven Whitehouse;Matthew O'Keefe
Affiliations:
Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota;Sistina Software, Inc. Minneapolis, Minnesota
Venue:
ALS'00 Proceedings of the 4th annual Linux Showcase & Conference - Volume 4
Year:
2000

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Abstract

In this paper we describe how we implemented journaling and recovery in the Global File System (GFS), a shared-disk, cluster file system for Linux. We also present our latest performance results for a 16-way Linux cluster.