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~(-: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Martin B. Smith Date: Tue, May 19, 2015 at 5:18 PM Subject: GatorLUG Meeting | 2015-05-20 | 6-8pm | MooseFS To: LINUX-L@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 ------------------------------ 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.