From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 6:55:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 648FC37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jack.clarksys.com (jack.clarksys.com [64.70.36.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3405343E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from max@clarksys.com) Received: (qmail 1624 invoked from network); 6 Sep 2002 13:54:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO princess) (4.47.62.87) by jack.clarksys.com with SMTP; 6 Sep 2002 13:54:47 -0000 From: "Max Clark" To: Subject: GFS (Global File System) support in FreeBSD Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 06:52:51 -0700 Message-ID: <001401c255ac$b1b4d7b0$6445a8c0@princess> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There are efforts in the Linux world to build a file system with similar features to the Compaq Tru64 cluster. Meaning that multiple nodes can access the same disk (via scsi, or more preferably Fibre Channel), while providing a file system on that shared disk (unlike raw file systems used for Oracle Parallel Server on Sun). I understand that this is extremely complicated, but at the same time gives incredible rewards for clustering and people looking for shared disk that is not NAS based. Are there any such efforts underway with FreeBSD? If so where I can find them to read up on what is occurring? If not is anything like this planned for FreeBSD? Thanks, Max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message