Fwd: GatorLUG Meeting | 2015-05-20 | 6-8pm | MooseFS

[Michael Havens]

I thought some people might be interested in this.
Maybe we could get a collaboration between  PLUG and GatorLUG where you
record each others meetings and either show it to the other group or do a
live presentation (expounded upon) of the other groups presentation. What
do you think of that?
:-)~MIKE~(-:

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From: Martin B. Smith <martin at mbs3.org>
Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:18 PM
Subject: GatorLUG Meeting | 2015-05-20 | 6-8pm | MooseFS
To: LINUX-L at lists.ufl.edu


Greetings All,

You are invited to join us at the next GatorLUG meeting at Mobiquity in
Gainesville, Florida at 6pm on Wednesday evening (5/20).

More information about the current meeting with a map link can be found at
http://gatorlug.org.

More information about GatorLUG: http://www.gatorlug.org/node/10
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Come join us for May's Gator Linux Users Group meeting at Mobiquity in
Gainesville, FL at 6pm on Wednesday evening.

The main topic for the night will be the Moose File System presented by
Clinton Collins. The Physics department at UF has been using this file
system for several years now in production. Clint will discuss how it works
and some of the advantages and disadvantages.

MooseFS is a fault tolerant, network distributed file system. It spreads
data over several physical servers which are visible to the user as one
resource. For standard file operations MooseFS acts as other Unix-alike
file systems:

A hierarchical structure (directory tree)
Stores POSIX file attributes (permissions, last access and modification
times)
Supports special files (block and character devices, pipes and sockets)
Symbolic links (file names pointing to target files, not necessarily on
MooseFS) and hard links (different names of files which refer to the same
data on MooseFS)
Access to the file system can be limited based on IP address and/or password

Distinctive features of MooseFS are:

High reliability (several copies of the data can be stored across separate
computers)
Capacity is dynamically expandable by attaching new computers/disks
Deleted files are retained for a configurable period of time (a file system
level "trash bin")
Coherent snapshots of files, even while the file is being written/accessed

Location:

Mobiquity, Inc
618 SW 4th Ave, Gainesville, FL

http://www.mobiquityinc.com/about/locations/gainesville-florida

NB: The meeting will be held in Mobiquity's main office where we met last
month. We are much indebted to their generosity for hosting the meeting,
and encourage you to learn more about them at mobiquityinc.com.
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