Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 09:20:31 +0100 (BST) From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com> To: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net> Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Distributed Lock Manager on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.970917091726.16878B-100000@ultra> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970916235121.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Simon Shapiro wrote: > Hi Amancio Hasty; On 17-Sep-97 you wrote: > > Microsoft's strategy for server clusters: > > http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/info/reliabilityoverview.htm > > It looks like a very large undertaking on their part. I think I disagree > with some of their concepts, but if your intent is to create similar > service under FreeBSD, then this is about what we are building. [snip] > A DLM is key to these technologies. The you need an RDBMS which > understands the sharing concept. A raw/block device is to follow, then a > file system. This is the order in which we are going, anyway. Hi, Your project sounds very cool, is there anything like this available commercially? It must have been a lot of work to implement, and its usually quite difficult to persuade management to trust their data to software with "Free" in its name! Well done. Niall
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