Linux Clustering and Storage Management

by Peter J. Braam (Chief Architect, TurboLinux )

Friday 21 Jul 2000, 14:00 → 14:15 Europe/Zurich

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

One of the most important Linux efforts in the year 2000 will be the beginning of development of advanced storage management software. In this talk we will review progress on file system and storage software projects. Journal file systems and logical volume management will help Linux to run on larger servers. Several projects are now close to completion and will provide much improved file system architecture. InterMezzo is a replicating file system, which is possibly suited to synchronise system files on systems in clusters, or to synchronise storage on mobile computers with servers. Finally we will also report on a novel object storage architecture, called Lustre. Lustre allows storage management to proceed through a stackable interface. Several file systems for Lustre are under development. About the speaker: Peter J. Braam specialises in storage, clustering and file system software and is best known for his work on the Lustre(TM) project and on the Coda and InterMezzo(TM) file systems. He received his PhD in 1987 and subsequently held tenured faculty positions at Utah and Oxford where he began to teach Computer Science in 1992. He joined Carnegie Mellon's faculty in 1996. In 1999 he began to commit most of his time to the Linux industry as a part time Cluster and File Systems Architect for Red Hat. In March 2000 he joined TurboLinux as Chief Architect.