Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:44:32 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" <kamalp@acm.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <41AEA4B8.6080508@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <41AE55D7.8020709@freebsd.org> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <98CE9C0241F1FC59BB8F0547@[192.168.1.16]> <41AE55D7.8020709@freebsd.org>
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I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something like apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who don't need X-windows' powerful graphic features]. regards -kamal Scott Long wrote: > Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long >> <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and >>> clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many >>> storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very >>> powerful. RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source >>> code, so exploring this would be very interesting. >> >> >> >> This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a >> SAN from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned >> in the above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. >> >> Later, >> Jason C. Wells > > > Well, AFS requires an intelligent node in front of each disk. True SAN > clustering means that you have a web of disks directly connected to the > SAN (iSCSI, FibreChannel, etc), and two or more servers on the SAN that > see those disks as a single filesystem (actually a bit more complicated > than this, but you get the point). If one server goes down, no access > to data is lost since the disks can be reached from any other server on > the SAN that is participating in the clustered FS. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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