From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Jul 24 12:30:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 948AA37B408 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:30:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.4/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f6OJTGv22875; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:29:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010724201930.C83511@jake.akitanet.co.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 12:29:20 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Paul Robinson Subject: RE: Clustering efforts (was Re: Is this list dead?) Cc: Bob Bishop , freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 24-Jul-01 Paul Robinson wrote: > On Jul 24, John Baldwin wrote: > >> NFS client locking is "fixed" in -current already. You can bug Alfred >> Perlstein about getting a patchset against 4.x to test >> with and possibly get it MFC'd. I would do this soon as 4.4. is coming up >> in >> late August. > > I might shoot off a mail, try and get a patchset sorted out and I can do > some testing on 3.x, 4.3-RELEASE and maybe even current at a push. Glad to > hear it's in -current - it will save me some evenings, and I will need it in > a few weeks for a project I'm working on. Ok. >> This is part of the problem. Everyone has different ideas of clustering. >> Some >> people just want load balancing and failover. Other people want things like >> distributed lock managers, processes that migrate between machines, virtual >> memory shared across machines, etc. > > OK, so what clustering efforts are currently underway, and what are their > objectives? The list archives are, like I say, dead, so please feel free to > shout at me if there is a bunch of documentation out there explaining this > that I've missed. There is no docco or anything cluster related in progress that I am aware of. Earlier efforts to kickstart clustering work usually fizzled out into discussions of what type of clustering did people really want. I.e., someone came in and said "let's do clustering!" and then we had a discussion about what that meant and it petered out after a while. Starting with a specific goal (web, mail, ftp, sql failover and load balancing) is, I think, a good way of avoiding "running off into the weeds". Good luck. :) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message