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@@ -3541,11 +3541,11 @@ S: Fargo, North Dakota 58122 S: USA N: Steven Whitehouse -E: SteveW@ACM.org +E: steve@chygwyn.com W: http://www.chygwyn.com/~steve -D: Linux DECnet project: http://www.sucs.swan.ac.uk/~rohan/DECnet/index.html +D: Linux DECnet project D: Minor debugging of other networking protocols. -D: Misc bug fixes and filesystem development +D: Misc bug fixes and GFS2 filesystem development N: Hans-Joachim Widmaier E: hjw@zvw.de diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..593004b6bbab --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2.txt @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Global File System +------------------ + +http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/ + +GFS is a cluster file system. It allows a cluster of computers to +simultaneously use a block device that is shared between them (with FC, +iSCSI, NBD, etc). GFS reads and writes to the block device like a local +file system, but also uses a lock module to allow the computers coordinate +their I/O so file system consistency is maintained. One of the nifty +features of GFS is perfect consistency -- changes made to the file system +on one machine show up immediately on all other machines in the cluster. + +GFS uses interchangable inter-node locking mechanisms. Different lock +modules can plug into GFS and each file system selects the appropriate |