From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 15:20:12 2002 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 7C3C837B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:20:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFE9D43ED1 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:20:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from ccs.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3/(ccn-5)) with SMTP id gBANKAgp016598 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:20:10 -0700 Received: (qmail 5775 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 16:20:10 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO carotid.ccs.lanl.gov) (128.165.148.162) by 128.165.148.1 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 16:20:10 -0700 Received: (qmail 1867 invoked by uid 3499); 10 Dec 2002 16:20:09 -0700 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 16:20:09 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:20:09 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" X-X-Sender: rminnich@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov To: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster In-Reply-To: <004901c2a09e$cae92870$0301000a@LAPTOP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck) wrote: > System originally created by Sistina and also available for Linux only by > The OpenGFS Project. What would be a cluster capable file system you might > suggest? > Lustre. I don't really think GFS qualifies as a file system in spite of the name. > > no, please check out Plan 9, cluster-wide /proc is not a good thing. At > > most you want the bproc-style proc. > > Why? global is bad. Global requires consensus, and DLMs and all that bad stuff. Please check out what Plan 9 does, it's really pretty neat. Way more than I can describe in an email. > > start at 1024. > > I just want to start with 2. hehe yeah but if you don't think in large terms you'll build things that won't go, e.g. OpenSSI. > I would think that being able to suspend and move processes between > machines would be a good thing. That is unrelated to global shared memory in clusters. thanks ron p.s. Just hoping that FreeBSD can get in this game too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message