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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks Yuri. These were great. I’m not trying to be impertinent, but I have one suggestion – If you can find the time, add some diagrams
 to help readers visualise the various data structures and layouts. I am thinking along the lines of what was in “The Magic Garden Explained” and “The Design and Implementation of the 4.3BSD UNIX Operating System” where they talked about their filesystems.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Yuri L Volobuev<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 21 October 2016 11:59 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [gpfsug-discuss] Two new whitepapers published<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#222222">Esteemed GPFS and Spectrum Scale users,</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#222222">For your reading enjoyment, two new whitepapers have been posted to the Spectrum Scale Wiki:</span><br>
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<a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/White%20Papers%20%26%20Media"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#1970B0">Spectrum Scale: Replication in GPFS</span></a><br>
<a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/White%20Papers%20%26%20Media"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#1970B0">Spectrum Scale: GPFS Metadata</span></a><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#222222">The URL for the parent page is
</span><a href="https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/White%20Papers%20%26%20Media"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif">https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/wikis/home?lang=en#!/wiki/General%20Parallel%20File%20System%20(GPFS)/page/White%20Papers%20%26%20Media</span></a><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#222222">The two .pdf documents are accessible through the Attachment section at the bottom of the page.  Unfortunately, dW "spam prevention engine" does a very good job preventing me from
 "spamming" the page to actually add links.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#222222">Best regards,</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#222222">Yuri</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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