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Date:      Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:08:01 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
Cc:        mikel@zso.dec.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Clustering? 
Message-ID:  <199908242008.NAA15663@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:55:36 -0000." <199908241955.MAA01709@usr09.primenet.com> 

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>>    FreeBSD doesn't support shared filesystems. You would need to add support
>> for that into FFS and presumably get or implement a distributed lock manager.
>
>The David Sarnoff stuff supports this.  It would not be too
>difficult to hack up the disctubted memory coherency manager
>to use low level SCSI I/O primitives to support this.

   I thought the Sarnoff stuff was a DSM implementation. If so, then it's not
what we're talking about (shared access to filesystems).

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
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