Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 11:44:24 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.org, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> Subject: Re: Is this list dead? Message-ID: <XFMail.010724114424.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010724171032.A60915@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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On 24-Jul-01 Paul Robinson wrote: >> Easy: it hasn't climbed high enough up anyone's todo list for it to >> actually get fixed. > > Hmmmm. Well, who knows where my evenings will lead me over the next month or > so then. It seems like an interesting (and valuable) thing to work on. If > you're into that sort of thing. :-) NFS client locking is "fixed" in -current already. You can bug Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org> about getting a patchset against 4.x to test with and possibly get it MFC'd. I would do this soon as 4.4. is coming up in late August. > Indeed. I actually want to think about things at a slightly higher level > than that. For me a cluster is a redundant bunch of SQL servers that gives > high-availability. Bit of load-balancing thrown in there, etc. This is part of the problem. Everyone has different ideas of clustering. Some people just want load balancing and failover. Other people want things like distributed lock managers, processes that migrate between machines, virtual memory shared across machines, etc. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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