From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 21:54:06 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 93F2716A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:54:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEF543D4C for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:54:06 +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 j2BLrsDC056425; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:54:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4232136E.5090105@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:53:50 -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: yfyoufeng@263.net References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <1110561042.5048.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1110561042.5048.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> 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 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 21:54:06 -0000 yf-263 wrote: > Hi, Eric, > > How about the MogileFS (http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/), which served a > pictures web service at about twenty millions. And all in user level. It > is also share some same ideas as GoogleFS (http://unix- > driver.org/books/linux/filesystem/googlefs/p125-ghemawat.pdf). > > And for Sistina's GFS (which sold to Redhat now), its 2.0 version has an > un-finished FreeBSD porting, which can be downloaded from its ftp server > (the address is not on my hand now, and I can tell you if you really > want it). > > Last year I have worked on porting that GFS to Darwin (since it use > FreeBSD fs codebase), so I'll glad to talk to you about it ;) Yes, please do send the link!! I couldn't find it in my meager googling. Do you have any insight as to when a 'real' FreeBSD port of GFS will be around? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------