From owner-freebsd-cluster Sun Jan 12 14:20: 9 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBA437B401 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:20:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from vps.vitalit.com (vps.vitalit.com [64.105.194.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71B3B43EB2 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 14:20:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Received: from LAPTOP (gso167-138-145.triad.rr.com [24.167.138.145]) by vps.vitalit.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id h0CMK5hQ018849 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:20:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Message-ID: <003a01c2ba88$b6f20c70$0201000a@LAPTOP> From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" To: References: <000901c2b8ef$57e4eb70$0201000a@LAPTOP> <20030110132550.A18143@lava.net> <193699876562.20030112164424@buz.ch> <001701c2ba84$6f307010$0201000a@LAPTOP> <37722441765.20030112230029@buz.ch> Subject: Re: freebsd cluster target market Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:19:46 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Is there any work being done on iSCSI for FreeBSD? And more > importantly, we need both frontend AND backend for this to work. I've come across some posts using google search in regards to iSCSI for FreeBSD, but I'm not aware of any work in progress. I imagine its just a matter of time as iSCSI hopes to displace fiber channel SANs. Can you be more specific about frontend and backend? I am assuming that if someone is writing an iSCSI driver that they would implement full functionality: mounting (frontend) and exporting (backend). Otherwise its not much use. > I'm no fan of vinum myself but combined with iSCSI it could pose a > solution. Recently I have found vinum useful as a "volume manager" (not RAID though that works too). I can create a concat plex/volume and when needed increase the diskspace by adding a subdisk of any available or needed size and using growfs. This allows many more partitions than normally available which is why many use volume managers for large systems. Haven't tried it in a production environment yet, maybe someone else is using this method in production? Now all I need is process migration and process migration capable network file system. ;-) Chuck P.S. Please do not cc me replies. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message