[CrackMonkey] Zork and bringing back the shared community space feel of the big iron Unix

[Monkey Master]

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> Moshe Bar did a column on Mosix + GFS a while back:
> 
> http://www.byte.com/printableArticle?doc_id=BYT20000925S0005

	Yeah, GFS is pretty good.  It solves the problem of sharing
/var/run/utmp etc for the "big machine" feel.

	But getting a big ol' shared-SCSI box is costly, and writing
stuff to tty device files will only work on the local host.  Is the
solution to just have one server that everyone runs all programs from,
and hope that it can dispatch processes to the farm quickly enough?

	I've looked all over the site, but I can't seem to find a
proper description of what MFS is.  Is it an actual on-disk
filesystem?  Is it just a network export layer like NFS?  

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