Oracle touts announcement that Cluster File System 2 for Linux will be distributed with the Linux kernel.

The new cluster file system for Linux will help Oracle9i Real Application Clusters customers simplify management of clustered database systems.

Oracle beta version Linux cluster file This middleware sits atop the operating system to facilitate management of Oracle9i clusters.

Red Hat GFS is the first third-party cluster file system supported by Oracle for RAC solutions on Linux. Previously, Oracle had only offered its own file system for Linux systems running RAC.

Among the tested file systems were Coda, Intermezzo, Global File System (GFS), MOSIX File System (MFS) and the Parallel Virtual File System (PVFS). After considering these and other options, the ...

In July, Cluster said Lustre would start using Sun’s OpenSolaris ZFS disk file system on Lustre servers that run Linux.

The most cost-effective approach to increasing your site's overall reliability is to implement a fail-over cluster. Fail-over clusters involve pooling together multiple computers, each of which is a ...

Sun Microsystems' open source moves continue to snowball. On Wednesday, Sun said it will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems intellectual property and assets.

The details of the software, including operating system, file system, and programming languages, all affect the system performance. The HPU4Science cluster uses Linux for its versatility and BTRFS ...

The deal, expected to close by early October, will give sun Cluster's Lustre File System, an open-source software distribution widely used in large computing systems Almost lost in the clamor over ...