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On Jul 1, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Chris D wrote:

> Yes, it is mountable on all machines simultaneously, and, for example, wo=
rks
> properly through file:///mnt/to/dfs in a single node cluster.

Then file:// will likely work a multi-node cluster as well.  So I doubt you=
'll need to write anything at all. :)=