Red Hat GFS can be configured on a Linux box to handle NFS and CIFS
as well as GFS clients. GFS supports two or more cluster nodes. CIFS
support is via Samba services available under Linux. Red Hat GFS
currently supports NFS V2 through V4 and can be connected to any back-
end storage accessible to Red Hat Linux.
Parallel file-system products: HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share
(SFS) is an outgrowth of the Lustre project and has special meta data and
storage processing nodes. To access file data in parallel, special client
software is needed, which is available for most forms of Linux and has
recently become available for Mac OS X. However, SFS doesn't support
CIFS and has limited scalability for clients using NFS. To gain maximum
benefit from this system, you need to run the Lustre file system.
The Panasas ActiveScale File System supports native parallel file access
using its DirectFlow protocol, and also supports standard NFS and CIFS
access. The product consists of separate DirectorBlades and
StorageBlades that plug into a shelf. DirectorBlades act as meta data
servers controlling access and mapping file names to StorageBlade
locations, and as protocol servers for mapping NFS and CIFS protocols to
the internal DirectFlow protocol. Performance scales with capacity, and
therefore bandwidth will increase as additional shelves are deployed. All
shelves are virtualized to provide a single, global file namespace for client
application access and system management. Panasas storage systems
can be integrated into an existing infrastructure and co-exist with non-
Panasas NAS storage or be deployed as a replacement for those systems.
NAS aggregator comparisons
NAS aggregators: A new class of storage products provides an
aggregated view of multiple, heterogeneous NAS boxes. These products
provide a single GNS over all file systems for a set of NAS boxes. NAS
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