What do systems from Bull, Cray, Dell, HP, IBM, Linux Networx, SGI and Sun all have in common? The Lustre file system. Lustre is the Linux-based open source file system developed by Cluster File ...

Despite reassurances from Oracle, advocates of yet another ex-Sun Microsystems technology are voicing concern about the future of their software. In this latest case, the technology is Lustre, a file ...

One soon-to-be-released incarnation of object-based storage is Lustre, an open-source file system that’s under development by Cluster File Systems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. Lustre, which is short ...

Cluster File Systems announced late last week that they’ll be moving to Sun’s ZFS file system as the backend for all implementations of their Lustre distributed file system on Linux. (More on this ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

Sun Microsystems Inc. Wednesday agreed to purchase most of Cluster File Systems Inc.’s business assets and intellectual property, including the Lustre file system, an open-source software distribution ...