From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 19:20:44 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 F35BC16A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:20:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A95943D48 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:20:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2BJKYqI032460; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:20:35 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:20:32 -0500 To: Brooks Davis , Eric Anderson From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 cc: freebsd-fs@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 19:20:44 -0000 At 10:39 AM -0800 3/11/05, Brooks Davis wrote: >On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > > > Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it? > > I am not much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test > > this technology under all types of loads, and we are currently > > using a commercial software to handle my needs (polyserve - which > > they have flat out told me 'no' for 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. If you've got money to throw at the problem, you could throw it at OpenAFS... :-) http://www.usenix.org/about/openafs/ However, usenix still haven't gotten back to me about whether I could earmark my donations for OpenAFS on *specific* platforms... -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu