[Linux-cluster] Performance questions - Lustre

[James McOrmond]

Lars Roland wrote:

> Lustre is a different beast than GFS, because of it's parallel and
> distributed nature. Lustre (and PVFS2) is usually used in parallel
> environments where shared storage (GFS and OCFS2 style) is not needed.

Can you explain this some more?  If it's not shared storage than what is it?

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