Date: 22 Feb 2001 11:41:14 GMT From: Thomas Graichen <news-list.freebsd.fs@innominate.de> To: fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting GFS to FreeBSD Message-ID: <news2mail-972tsq$6d4$2@mate.bln.innominate.de> References: <20010221180210.0E90037B401@hub.freebsd.org>
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Mike Declerck <declerck@sistina.com> wrote: > All, > Sistina Software Inc is in the process of evaluating the effort to port the > Global File System from Linux to FreeBSD. Before someone starts harping on > the GPL let me state that Sistina is willing to have a separate license for > the *BSD community so if we could put that discussion off to a later time I > would appreciate it. > For people who don't know about GFS you can find technical information > concerning it at -> http://www.sistina.com > Here is a quick description: > The Global File System (GFS) is a shared disk cluster file system for Linux. > GFS supports journaling and recovery from client failures. GFS cluster nodes > physically share the same storage by means of Fibre Channel, shared SCSI > devices or network block devices. The file system appears to be local on each > node and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster. GFS is fully > symmetric, that is, all nodes are equal and there is no server which may be a > bottleneck or single point of failure. GFS uses read and write caching while > maintaining full UNIX file system semantics. i think also important to note here (for all who don't know GFS well) that GFS is also useable quite well as a local filesystem - that means porting it to FreeBSD would result in a journaling 64bit (ok - no problem for FreeBSD :o) filesystem which also can handle large directories very well ... i think beneath the really cool aspect of a clustered filesystem this is also something which looks pretty interesting t -- thomas.graichen@innominate.com innominate AG the linux architects tel: +49-30-308806-13 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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