From owner-freebsd-cluster Mon Dec 9 20:11:47 2002 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 A17EA37B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:11:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from spf1.us.outblaze.com (205-158-62-139.outblaze.com [205.158.62.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C65E43EC5 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 20:11:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from click46@operamail.com) Received: (qmail 10164 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2002 21:13:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (205.158.62.68) by 205-158-62-139.outblaze.com with QMQP; 9 Dec 2002 21:13:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 56114 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 03:30:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com) (205.158.62.131) by 205-158-62-153.outblaze.com with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 03:30:29 -0000 Received: (qmail 4731 invoked by uid 1001); 10 Dec 2002 03:30:27 -0000 Message-ID: <20021210033027.4730.qmail@operamail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) Received: from [159.115.213.190] by ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com with http for click46@operamail.com; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:30:27 +0800 From: "aaron g" To: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:30:27 +0800 Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster X-Originating-Ip: 159.115.213.190 X-Originating-Server: ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com 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 the iSCSI drivers, as far as I can tell, are non-existant. While there are one or two projects in the works, nothing is publicly available or usable. Both Cisco and Intel have iSCSI drivers only for linux. Not even Adaptec, the one that likes to tout its support of the BSD's, has an iSCSI driver for its hardware cards. someone knowledgable needs to get on this pronto; Fibre is such an expensive alternative :-\ -aarong ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:39:26 -0500 To: Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster > > Shared SCSI would probably be the way to go in this situation. iSCSI > (not sure of driver status) and vinum should enable software RAID mirroring > of file systems over a network providing you fail-over capabilities without > shared SCSI. > > > > You are wanting a single-system-image cluster. Not many *nix vendors > > > have got this right (Tru64 quite highly rated in this regard) and none > > > of the free Unices AFAIK. > > > > Sounds like we need to bribe some Tru64 folks. ;) > > Compaq/DEC/HP is porting some of their single-system-image clustering > code to Linux. > http://ssic-linux.sf.net > We can only hope FreeBSD will offer single-system-image clustering one > day, but who knows. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message > -- _______________________________________________ Get your free email from http://mymail.operamail.com Powered by Outblaze To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message