As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

Almost lost in the clamor over Sun Microsystems Inc.’s expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday was a small acquisition that will bolster Sun’s HPC storage offerings. Sun agreed to ...

One soon-to-be-released incarnation of object-based storage is Lustre, an open-source file system that’s under development by Cluster File Systems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. Lustre, which is short ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

I think the number is actually 1.7 million, but here we go. Environment is a clustered GFS2 volume (RHEL 6.1) with 1.7 Million PDFs (~3MB a piece, I think, but don't quote me since that doesn't seem ...