Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:45:24 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4231BD14.3080506@xbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4231BC11.7030604@centtech.com> References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <Pine.GSO.4.60.0503110859020.18393@titan> <4231B7D5.3070306@xbsd.org> <4231BC11.7030604@centtech.com>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Anderson wrote: > Florent Thoumie wrote: >> 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. Ok, good to know, thanks for pointing this. > For what it's worth, there is an nbd port: > net/nbd-server I think that's not really the good thing to do, and FreeBSD doesn't have support for nbd-client, so I may just forget it :) -- flz --------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCMb0YMxEkbVFH3PQRAoczAJ9S95VTX3riUxcad+5317RBHZYGTQCfT4E5 /Zcsxt085QphQgy1JpPPw94= =wYRE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41--
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