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File Systems for the Scalable Enterprise

Overview Cluster file systems have the potential to improve cluster performance and expandability dramatically, offering innovative approaches for increasing bandwidth to accommodate large amounts of data, balancing file server loads, and simplifying data access for client systems. This paper discusses a scalable approach to file system architecture and provides criteria that can be used to evaluate file system capabilities.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	February 2005	Downloads	85
Format	White Papers
Topics	Bandwidth Issues, File and Network Servers, Scalability

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