From owner-freebsd-cluster Mon Feb 3 9:40:44 2003 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 3487B37B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:40:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from digitalfreaks.org (digitalfreaks.org [216.151.95.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DE2F43F3F for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ziccardi@digitalfreaks.org) Received: (qmail 21302 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Feb 2003 17:40:36 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 3 Feb 2003 17:40:36 -0000 Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 12:40:36 -0500 (EST) From: Chad Ziccardi To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" , "" Subject: Re[2]: freebsd cluster target market In-Reply-To: <37722441765.20030112230029@buz.ch> Message-ID: <20030203123902.D20589@digitalfreaks.org> References: <000901c2b8ef$57e4eb70$0201000a@LAPTOP> <20030110132550.A18143@lava.net> <193699876562.20030112164424@buz.ch> <001701c2ba84$6f307010$0201000a@LAPTOP> <37722441765.20030112230029@buz.ch> 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 begin quote from Gabriel Ambuehl 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