Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 16:38:51 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Nestor Wheelock <nestor@idotmind.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & OpenAFS Message-ID: <20070404203851.GC90143@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070404132213.D27324@mail.idotmind.com> References: <20070404132213.D27324@mail.idotmind.com>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 01:35:22PM -0500, Nestor Wheelock wrote: Another thing I forgot to include: You might want to take a look at ZFS. It comes from Sun, but I understand will be supported in FreeBSD 7.0 and after. It might not be quite what you are looking for, but it's worth a look. Sun is making it Open source and free. It is supposed to be included in Open Solaris as well as FreeBSD 7.xx and maybe some others. Check: http://www.sun.com/2004-0914/feature/ and Google for others. ////jerry > Hi Jerry, > > I found your posts regarding FreeBSD 6.1 and AFS in my search to > possibly make it work (I'm running a mix of 6.1 and (testing) 6.2) on our > various machines and was was wondering if you found anymore answers. > > Some background to my project: > > I'm looking for a replacement for NFS. I want to share jails across a > cluster of machines for "virtualized" servers a la the Linux Virtual > Machine. I'm looking for a file sharing system that will behave nicer > than NFS and thought AFS might be an answer? I also liked how all the > drives in the various machines can act together as a large share, rather > than having to have a dedicated drive array. Especially with the cheap > abundant SATA2 storage that is available these days. > > Any experience you care to share or advice you might wish to offer would > be appreciated. > > Nestor Wheelock > Systems Architect > idotmind.com
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