From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Apr 11 18:18: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC0A137B405 for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:18:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0186.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.186] helo=mindspring.com) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16vphU-0002GM-00; Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:18:04 -0700 Message-ID: <3CB635B2.E0046EE@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:17:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul English Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple host access References: <20020411163547.B819-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Paul English wrote: > Does the freebsd filesystem (or any of the options) support multiple host > access? I'd like to be able to connect several SCSI controllers to one > RAID array, and have a filesystem that supports it. I've seen searching > the archives that there was some talk of a GFS port to FreeBSD - I'm all > for that! Multiple access requires that the FS be able to operate on zones, and the zone locks be mandatorily enforced, rather than advisory. The GFS does this by running a daemon, and praying for the next revision of the SCSI standard so it won't have to run the daemon. Now NFS supports multiple host access... 8-). For FreeBSD, the option is NFS. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message