From owner-freebsd-cluster Sun Jan 12 13:59:43 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2011B37B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:59:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5836343EB2 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 13:59:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 87966 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2003 21:59:32 -0000 Received: from dclient80-218-105-86.hispeed.ch (HELO gaxp1800.root.li) (80.218.105.86) by 0 with SMTP; 12 Jan 2003 21:59:32 -0000 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 23:00:29 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Educational Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <37722441765.20030112230029@buz.ch> To: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: freebsd cluster target market In-Reply-To: <001701c2ba84$6f307010$0201000a@LAPTOP> References: <000901c2b8ef$57e4eb70$0201000a@LAPTOP> <20030110132550.A18143@lava.net> <193699876562.20030112164424@buz.ch> <001701c2ba84$6f307010$0201000a@LAPTOP> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Charles, Sunday, January 12, 2003, 10:49:01 PM, you wrote: > In their own words, everyone seems to have similar request. > I've mentioned in the past that once an iSCSI driver (nbd replacement) > is available for FreeBSD we should be able to combine it with vinum to > create a failover capable mirrored file system (drdb replacement solution). > Check the archives for recent specifics regarding this type of failover. Is there any work being done on iSCSI for FreeBSD? And more importantly, we need both frontend AND backend for this to work. I'm no fan of vinum myself but combined with iSCSI it could pose a solution. I actually once HAD vinum doing network RAID. It's an awful hack and not of any practical use, but enough for proof of concept: Mount foreign filesystem over NFS. Use vn(4) and vnconfig to create a FS backed "partition", use disklabel to assign the correct partition type to it and you're set. It's just horrible unstable, slow and prone to error. Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2i iQEVAwUBPiHXccZa2WpymlDxAQH+JQf9FWFtzAF64/pghNZG+Rn0Su3IU1gHqasE 2ZfdKQ6UDUAi+NeoX2uB+6+ZbEaUo6CHt16YW1D6au4jdkOmvqiz3POwPRiuklx8 c5pJNCgSFLveVTVAEId+BD3yav9+/CPTff7tfCZGRwv2pF3A3+pMfk62raJeRAm4 roWPm0gcW6y+w1w8SEeo3XVxVpkutqN4gs97MtK8he8dZzoglmUp2Y7eE+jxL0Ma KIt8uXrp7uRlNGpa8xpdF3zSupAH3NJBs536wvny3Qi6LoEJiHZ8FJvUirMT8Kp5 SS+wXoEsiFjxE7c3j2wOKXFE6PhYtKmzeANWfxa2e9DLtxV7c+1+Wg== =YNYB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message