silly worker drones... what about CXFS?!!!! (Score 1)

um, the stats speak for themselves ~ 64-bit scalability to support files to 9 million Tb, filesystems to 18 million Tb ~ Instant data sharing without network mounts or data copies among all major OS: IRIX® Sun(TM) Solaris(TM) IBM® AIX® Windows® (2000/XP) Linux® (32 and 64 bit) Mac OS® X Unix® Flavors # Highly optimized distributed buffering techniques that provide the industry's fastest performance # High availability with automatic failure detection and recovery # Centralized, intuitive Java(TM) language-based management tools # POSIX® compliance that requires no application change So if you really do have large volumesof data and want 99.999% uptime, look at this and tremble in awe! http://www.sgi.com/pdfs/2508.pdf