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This article is from the storage
FAQ part2, by Rodney D. Van Meter with numerous contributions
by others.
3.11 DMF
Cray Research's Data Migration Facility. The grandaddy of Unix HSM
systems. You can find info on DMF at
http://www.cray.com/product-info/sw/SM/DMF_flyer.html, or call +1 612
683 3897 or email crayinfo@cray.com. It's reportedly
running on more than 200 systems, and development is continuing. Large
users are in the hundreds of TB, with millions of files and >1TB/day
through DMF.
Information from:
"Storage Management at Cray Research, Inc", Metcalfe, D.J. and Thompson. D.
"Data Migration Facility Development Update", Lazatella, T.W. and Bannister, N.
Cray User Group, Barcelona, 1996, in press.
(Robert.Bell@dit.csiro.au, 1996/4/2)
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