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Date:      Wed, 10 May 2000 15:37:05 -0700
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [ Global Filesystem ] a thought to mull over ...
Message-ID:  <20000510153705.O28180@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005101451240.27302-100000@semuta.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:52:16PM -0700
References:  <v04210110b53f88b4c221@[128.113.24.47]> <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005101451240.27302-100000@semuta.feral.com>

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* Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> [000510 15:27] wrote:
> On Wed, 10 May 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 
> > At 2:28 PM -0700 5/10/00, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > >[ I'll be gone for about 3 weeks, so I'm throwing this over my
> > >shoulder as I go - I'll check reponses, interest level when I
> > >get back ... ]
> > >
> > >What do folks feel about a port of Global Filesystem (see the
> > >URL http://www.gobalfilesystem.org) to FreeBSD?
> > 
> > Try:
> > http://www.globalfilesystem.org/
> > 
> > (you missed an 'L')
> 
> I need a vacation....
> 
> > 
> > 
> > >I believe that despite some of the issues that one can take up
> > >about their approach, it's the closest to a SAN-ready solution
> > >that I've seen in the Open Source space as yet.
> > 
> > How does this compare to things like ARLA or CODA?
> 
> I don't know ARLA. Different intents than CODA. This filesystem is intended to
> be a shared local (well, fabric) filesystem across heterogenous hosts.

No offence, the way I read it, it looks like an exportable vn device,
hardly state-of-the-art clustering technology.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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