Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:27:43 -0500 From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" <car@vitalit.com> To: <freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <003501c2a09b$5f5116c0$0301000a@LAPTOP> References: <20021210132642.N80252-100000@fubar.adept.org>
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> > Unfortunately I'd have to agree that Linux has better clustering support > > at the moment. That is basically because more people (particularly the > > corporations and national labs) are working on cluster support for Linux. > > Paraphrasing Jossie and the Pussycats (excellent pop culture commentary > ;), "Linux is the new Windows." So, indeed, no surprise here. Lets not put Linux down like that. ;-)) I like "Linux is the new Unix." better. ;-) > I don't think there's any 'pretty' FreeBSD clustering solution today... > Pretty meaning a combination of managability, stability, robustness and > correctness. So, moving forward, can we reach a consensus on 'what's best > to try to port?' I agree. I think investigating Single-System-Image-Clustering Linux and GlobalFS for potential ports would be a good start. I don't know anyone who is willing and capable to begin a port. It could also be that both projects are not mature enough to begin porting or better off creating a "branch" dedicated to FreeBSD. http://opengfs.sourceforge.net/ http://ssic-linux.sourceforge.net/ I would love to see FreeBSD get the following features most of which are currently being developed in the above projects or available (in order of importance): - iSCSI for storage area networks (LAN or WAN) (probably coming sooner than later) - Process migration, cluster wide /proc, GlobalFS or Other (ClusterFS?), - Cluster wide IP addresses. - Scale to 100s of nodes. - Cluster wide shared memory. > I have to admit I'll be implementing a mini-itx cluster in my garage this > summer as a side project and may experiment with NFS, Coda, etc... > However, those solutions would not be feasible in my production > envrionments. However, once the cluster is up, I'll be more than happy to > help some person or group implement and test better solutions. I am in the (slow) process of putting together a working SSIC-Linux here at home. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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