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Building a Scalable NFS Server With GPFS

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Overview As server farms continue to get larger the need for a scalable network file system based on the industry standard NFS protocols becomes more apparent. Linux NFS will not handle these large server farms from a single server. More robust storage subsystems are prohibitively expensive and therefore defeat one of the reasons for using Linux in the server farm in the first place. This paper describes a solution to this problem using multiple NFS servers sharing a common file system managed by an underlying GPFS cluster. The solution is easy to design, easy to manage, feature rich and highly reliable.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF
Date Published	December 2007	Downloads	1
Format	White Papers
Topics	Scalability, File and Network Servers

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