Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 16:20:09 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov> To: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" <car@vitalit.com> Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212101615560.1841-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <004901c2a09e$cae92870$0301000a@LAPTOP>
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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
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