From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 15:41:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D51916A4CE; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:41:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC1F43D1D; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:41:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2BFf93h052589; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:41:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4231BC11.7030604@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 09:41:05 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florent Thoumie References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <4231B7D5.3070306@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4231B7D5.3070306@xbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/761/Thu Mar 10 15:01:48 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: Adam Maloney cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:41:10 -0000 Florent Thoumie wrote: > Adam Maloney wrote: > >> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Eric Anderson wrote: >> >>> Speaking of filesytems :), I have a real need for a global filesystem >>> (or >> >> >> >> "me too" >> >> I played with CODA a few months ago but it didn't seem to be solid, and >> didn't fit my needs. Everything else I've looked at is Linux-only. >> Please follow-up to the list, I'd be very interested in seeing what >> other projects are available. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I don't know if DRBD [1] is a good implementation (Linux only), but it > works flawlessly, replication is fast (i got ~35MB/s) and it's quite > simple to get it working. > > ENBD [2] isn't based on the same concept, it "exports" block devices > through network via userland application, though it needs a kernel > module for client side. > > I'd like something like DRBD exists for FreeBSD but I'm not aware of > such an implementation. > > [1] http://www.drbd.org/ > [2] http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/ GEOM Gate does a part of this. I thing using vinum+geom gate you could get a similar setup. However, this isn't exactly what I want - I don't need a 'mirror', I need a cluster of active machines serving the same disk data. For what it's worth, there is an nbd port: net/nbd-server Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------