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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."

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