Date: Mon, 22 Jun 1998 12:50:45 +0800 From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Clusters, Distributed File Systems and FreeBSD Message-ID: <199806220450.MAA15275@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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Is anyone doing work on distributed filesystems (where files can be spread across > 1 node) on FreeBSD? The reason I'm interested is because I'm working for a Seismic DP company, and we use clusters all over the place (mainly IBM SP2 systems). They share filesystems using PIOFS, where each node has a 4GB disk shared out out. These are combined together and seen as one ginormous fs. I'm hoping to port our software environment to FreeBSD, initially having it set up for an SMP environment (it's based around PVM/MPI, BTW) as I only have one node. As time & finances permit, I'll purchase up to 4 boxes using cheap hardware for a proof of concept. I'm not expecting earth-shattering performance, it's being done mostly to satisfy my own curiousity. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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