Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:40:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chad Ziccardi <ziccardi@digitalfreaks.org> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" <car@vitalit.com>, "" <freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re[2]: freebsd cluster target market Message-ID: <20030203123902.D20589@digitalfreaks.org> In-Reply-To: <37722441765.20030112230029@buz.ch> References: <000901c2b8ef$57e4eb70$0201000a@LAPTOP> <20030110132550.A18143@lava.net> <193699876562.20030112164424@buz.ch> <001701c2ba84$6f307010$0201000a@LAPTOP> <37722441765.20030112230029@buz.ch>
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begin quote from Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> written 2003-01-12: > I actually once HAD vinum doing network RAID. It's an awful hack and > not of any practical use, but enough for proof of concept: > > Mount foreign filesystem over NFS. Use vn(4) and vnconfig to create a > FS backed "partition", use disklabel to assign the correct partition > type to it and you're set. It's just horrible unstable, slow and prone > to error. That sounds similiar to Solaris's CacheFS, backing NFS to local disk for faster access, and a little bit of stability (it can keep going with the NFS server down) -- Chad Ziccardi, Professional Slacker cz@digitalfreaks.org "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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