Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:46:30 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org, jarrod@ipglobal.net Subject: Re: freebsd-cluster Message-ID: <46B8CC16.9070309@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200708061555.l76FtUo2043815@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200708061555.l76FtUo2043815@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Oliver Fromme wrote: > Jarrod Baumann wrote: > > How about and drivers, experimental/beta or not, that exist for > > mounting other existing clustered DFS environments? > > Well, there's FUSE in FreeBSD's ports collection, so you > should be able to mount any file system for which there is > a FUSE driver available. In theory. > > FUSE provides an API that allows file system drivers to > run in userland. There's a ton of FUSE file systems on > its home page ... Most of them are only written and tested > on Linux, but it should be possible to compile and run them > on FreeBSD with minor efforts.) > > Other than that, there is no distributed file system for > FreeBSD. Coda and AFS have been mentioned, but last time > I looked they were not really usable. > > When a customer asks me to set up clustered storage (HA), > I usually recommend a NetApp Filer cluster. At least they > use a BSD-derived OS, so it's not completely off-topic. ;-) > > Best regards > Oliver > Oh, and I forgot to mention this piece of software: http://www.bsdcluster.com/ I haven't played with it recently, but it was promising when I did play with it about a year ago. It's not a clustered file system implementation, but it does have some failover/HA pieces in it, and some VFS hooks to distribute changes. It's worth a look for sure.. Eric
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