Linux 2000 UK Linux Developers' Conference Linux for the Enterprise 7 - 9 July 2000, Hammersmith (West London)

Steve Whitehouse

GlobalFileSystem

The GlobalFileSystem is a journalled, fault-tolerant, clustered file system. It provides a high-performance solution to many applications where reliability is of foremost concern. The talk will centre upon the applications of the GlobalFileSystem and will also cover the implementation and describe how it interacts with the Linux kernel. For more information visit the homepage for the GFS project.

Steve Whitehouse is a software consultant running his own company (ChyGwyn Limited) which mainly takes on contract programming work on Open Source and Linux based projects. He is also in the final stages of writing up his PhD thesis on "Error Resilient Image Compression". Steve first became involved with Linux when he was an undergraduate at the University of Wales, Swansea where he was an active member of the computer society. Steve maintains the Linux DECnet kernel code.

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