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Date:      Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:34:23 -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.4.44.0212101531170.1460-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <003501c2a09b$5f5116c0$0301000a@LAPTOP>

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On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck) wrote:

>    Lets not put Linux down like that.  ;-))  I like "Linux is the new Unix."
> better.  ;-)

I think FreeBSD would run all these Linux things just as well as Linux 
does. I sure wish somebody would look at bproc for FreeBSD. 

> GlobalFS for potential ports would be a good start.  I don't know anyone who

"GlobalFS" in general is bad. global anything is bad. Consider Private 
Name Spaces.


> - Process migration, cluster wide /proc, GlobalFS or Other (ClusterFS?),

no, please check out Plan 9, cluster-wide /proc is not a good thing. At 
most you want the bproc-style proc. 

Anything that involves global consensus is going to give you headaches.

> - Scale to 100s of nodes.

start at 1024.

> - Cluster wide shared memory.

eek.

ron


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