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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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