[NBLUG/talk] SoCoSA Meeting tomorrow (Tuesday July 7th)

[Eric Eisenhart]

Tomorrow's SoCoSA meeting might be of interest to some of you. It's  
definetely a Linux topic... Details below.

Begin forwarded message:
> Kevan Benson wrote:
>> Day: Tuesday July 7th
>> Time: 7pm for speaker, doors open at 6, be there by 6:10 for pizza  
>> order
>> Location: O'Reilly Media, Tarsier Room (behind the big metal tarsier)
>>               1005 Gravenstein Hwy N, Sebastopol; http://xrl.us/u6vz
>> Topic: GlusterFS
>> Speaker: Kevan Benson
>> Event Page: http://socosa.org/node/956
>>
>> GlusterFS is a cluster file system with some unique  
>> characteristics, it
>> has enterprise class features and is free, it uses chaining to  
>> customize
>> it's features to your specific needs, and it has a fast and open
>> development team that's very responsive to user requests.  Some of  
>> these
>> features make it very useful in high availability and load balancing
>> environments.  It's not without it's problems, though, and deciding  
>> when
>> GlusterFS is feasible and when it isn't can be a hard choice.  This
>> discussion will cover the features of GlusterFS, along with when it  
>> is
>> and isn't the right choice for your clustering needs.