Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:17:05 -0700 From: mikel@zso.dec.com (Mike Lempriere) To: dg@root.com Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering? Message-ID: <9908242317.AA02428@slugbt.zso.dec.com> In-Reply-To: <199908242008.NAA15663@implode.root.com> (message from David Greenman on Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:08:01 -0700)
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Ideally it would have live shared access... However, I'd be happy to get minimal one-or-the-other functionality like Wolfpack does. I run a small-time website hosting business off a FreeBSD server, and something as crude as this would be a big improvement over the current mechanism where on failure, I'd have to physically swap the drive cable to a partner machine and boot it. > To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> > Cc: mikel@zso.dec.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Clustering? > From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> > Reply-To: dg@root.com > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:08:01 -0700 > Sender: dg@implode.root.com > > >> FreeBSD doesn't support shared filesystems. You would need to add support > >> for that into FFS and presumably get or implement a distributed lock manager. > > > >The David Sarnoff stuff supports this. It would not be too > >difficult to hack up the disctubted memory coherency manager > >to use low level SCSI I/O primitives to support this. > > I thought the Sarnoff stuff was a DSM implementation. If so, then it's not > what we're talking about (shared access to filesystems). > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com > Pave the road of life with opportunities. > > > -- *** Due to layoffs, I will lose my old zso.dec.com address as of *** *** 07-Sep-1999. Please update your address book entry for me. *** Pacific NorthWest wine, blues, jazz info; http://vintners.net/~mikel Mike Lempriere-Home: mikel@vintners.net WA State resident-junk email prohibited by law: RCW19.190 & RCW19.86 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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