[Swift-devel] Re: remote file system

[Ben Clifford]

> > I found that sometimes the failure of Swift workflow is 
> > caused by the remote file system error. In OSG, except NFS, 
> > GPFS and pvfs, what are other file systems adopted?
> 
> Those are probably the most widespread ones. But I have no idea what
> individual sites have out there. You could probably run a sweep of
> cat /etc/fstab and see what comes up.

I think I've never seen anything other than those three in live deployment 
on a grid machine.

AFS is used in some places but there are many challenges to using that in 
a grid environment and I've not seen it used for a cluster-shared fs. I've 
seen it used more to provide an enterprise/global homedirectory service.

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