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Red Hat Global File System

Overview Red Hat Global File System (GFS) is an open source, POSIX-compliant cluster file system and volume manager that executes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers attached to a storage area network (SAN). It works on all major server and storage platforms supported by Red Hat. The leading (and first) cluster file system for Linux, Red Hat GFS has the most complete feature set, widest industry adoption, broadest application support, and best price/ performance of any Linux cluster file system today.

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Publisher	Red Hat	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2004	Downloads	178
Format	White Papers
Topics	Fibre

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