Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:45:25 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: mikel@zso.dec.com (Mike Lempriere) Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering? Message-ID: <199908241845.LAA15425@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 11:19:35 PDT." <9908241819.AA32093@slugbt.zso.dec.com>
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>As mentioned in a previous note, I'm about to be laied off by Compaq. I
>may be given the opportunity to purchase some of my test gear. It may be
>possible to get a pair of 2100's, or a pair of 433a's, or a pair of
>Proliant's.
>
>These pairs are tied together with differential SCSI bus to shared storage
>for "clustering". Specifically, they were used for NT "Wolfpack".
>
>Does anyone know if FreeBSD already has the smarts to handle this sort of
>configuration, or would I be having write device drivers to make use of
>it?
>
>Can you see any reason I should not try to acquire this equipment? I
>could skip the shared storage, differential SCSI, etc. and save some money
>if it's known the FreeBSD would not like it.
>
>Please reply to me directly ('though I am on the list) as the rest of the
>list probably won't be interested.
FreeBSD doesn't support shared filesystems. You would need to add support
for that into FFS and presumably get or implement a distributed lock manager.
-DG
David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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