Re: [openMosix-general] NFS and MFS relationship

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You are on the right track, Yes NFS is a bad choice in general for an oM cluster. THere is a way to use oMFS as the FS. At the moment I have not been able to find the thread in the list that explained how to do it again. 

Evan

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:18:43 +0100
"Áncor González Sosa" <anc...@so...> wrote:

> I'm a Spanish student trying to set an OpenMosix Cluster with diskless nodes
> (and also nodes with HD) and a queue system for scientific purposes.
> I want to use MFS and DFSA so my processes will not be forced to return to its
> parent node for I/O operations. Isn't it?
> I've read in a lot of sites that NFS is not a good filesystem for clusters, but
> oMFS over NFS seems to be the only choice to build a cluster with oMFS and
> diskless nodes.
> My question can be a nonsense but... Can a cluster-wide MFS filesystem be set
> without using NFS? I mean: Can MFS take upon itself the NFS functionality and
> run in a diskless enviroment without any other net fs below it?
> 
> Maybe I'm in a mistake and NFS is perfect for building clusters, I don't remember
> where I read that it was a bad option (but I read it in many different places).
> 
> I'm not very good with English and maybe my question is not completely
> understood. I have done my best :-(
> 
> Greetings
> 
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