Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 09:59:52 +0100 From: Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de> To: freebsd-cluster <freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <3DF5AD08.4040105@nentec.de> References: <20021209160251.E10322-100000@fubar.adept.org> <006101c29fe4$a13fad60$0301000a@LAPTOP>
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Greetings, I have looking into the porting efforts of the project. They are very close to the beginning of developement, rather than near the end. I have said a few times that a goal of the development I am doing (with welcomes to any volunteers!) would be to this end. However I believe architecturally that the compaq solution is bloated and offers far too many opportunitys for disaster. I still regard the KISS principle as the best one. I think that there are *many* nice things within FreeBSD that would not be properly utilized if it was just a straight port. Not only that there are some significan pieces missing that I have already implemented in this code. There was once MOSIX and it is more on the model that I am looking at, with some dynamic features added. I am nearing (finally!) the completion of the architectural overview that I will be releasing around the first of the year to lay out a concrete plan on how to arrive at this point we all would like to see. Hopefully then there will be some volunteers that would want to help to this goal, otherwise people will still be knashing their teeth and wailing outside of the walls. Let's here from some volunteers now ;-) Andy Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck) wrote: > 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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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