Scalability and failure recovery in a linux cluster file system
Kenneth W. Preslan, Andrew Barry, Jonathan Brassow, Michael Declerck, A. J. Lewis, Adam Manthei, Ben Marzinski, Erling Nygaard, Seth Van Oort, David Teigland, Mike Tilstra, Steven Whitehouse, Matthew T. O'Keefe · 2000
In this paper we describe how we implemented journaling and recovery in the Global File System (GFS), a shared-disk, cluster file system for Linux. We also present our latest performance results for a 16-way Linux cluster.