* Latchesar Ionkov <lu...@ionkov.net> wrote: Hi,
> I talked with a guy that's is doing parallel filesystem work, and > according to him 80% of all filesystem operations when running an HPC > job are for checkpointing (not that much restart). I just don't see > how checkpointing can scale knowing how bad the parallel fs are. We need a clustered venti and an cluster-aware fossil ;-P I'm currently in the process of designing an clustered storage, inspired by venti and git, which also supports removing files, on-demand sychronization, etc. I'll let you know when I've got something to present. cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------