Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:39:34 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com>
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--FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Speaking of filesytems :), I have a real need for a global filesystem (o= r=20 > shared fs, or clustered fs, or whatever), and my favorite OS doesn't have= =20 > one (that I know of!). I saw that a few years back a few people were=20 > working on getting GFS working on FreeBSD, but there's no recent mention = of=20 > that. =20 > Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it? I am not= =20 > much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test this technology und= er=20 > all types of loads, and we are currently using a commercial software to= =20 > handle my needs (polyserve - which they have flat out told me 'no' for=20 > FreeBSD support), but I would much prefer to be on FreeBSD. If you've got money to throw at the problem, you might talk to Isilon and Panasas. Both build clustered storge solutions (you buy their hardware) that happen to be based on FreeBSD. They are currently targeting Linux, but it might be fairly easy for them to support FreeBSD given sufficent motivation. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCMeXlXY6L6fI4GtQRAkYlAKCfIY79i8kY2lah6sWAKbcHi64YmwCeOAH9 P/oMfXL8gmngOoWFKWAeeqs= =JXWi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--
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