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To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > And unfortunately, most, if not all, of the discussions I have seen
> > raised are short-term based.  We fail to work towards goals on the
> > longer term.  Dare I name clustering yet again, yes I do.
> 
> If you dare to raise clustering then you should also dare to consider
> taking on the design work involved and releasing some white papers on
> potential approaches to solving the problem in FreeBSD.  To do
> otherwise is to simply throw out a buzzword ("clustering!") and say
> that somebody, somewhere, should work on it because everyone says it's
> important.  That's not architectural discussion, that's a bullet point
> on a marketing slide.

I know how to start: port GFS (the Global File System).

-SB

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