Main Topic: Red Hat Cluster Suite and the Global File System
RHCS and GFS are systems for managing clusters of machines. RHCS is a supporting infrastructure to deploy highly available applications that require failover or load balancing while GFS is a filesystem that allows block level access to multiple nodes simultaneously. RHCS and GFS are very important in bringing Linux to the large business.
Andrew Forgue, a Systems Administrator at Oakland University, will talk about RHCS and GFS, what the components are, what they do, and how they fit together. He will also do a short demo about a cluster that is set up at Oakland University.
Secondary Topic: Report from Jim McQuillan on the road
Jim McQuillan will be in Germany for Linux Tag and the OSDL DAM-2 meeting.
One of the especially interesting topics at Linux Tag is the meeting that Mark Shuttleworth has called, between the KDE developers and the Kubuntu team, to help to make Kubuntu the best KDE based distribution on the planet.
Jim’s pdf from Linux Day and Open Source Development Lab
Jim has offered to connect up via IRC and/or Phone, to give a report from the meetings.