From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 5 05:43:23 2003 Return-Path: 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 E84CF37B401 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 05:43:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail005.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail005.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.136]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2FDE43F93 for ; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 05:43:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) Received: from purzelina.optusnet.com.au (melax2-202.dialup.optusnet.com.au [210.49.64.202])h55ChHo25140; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:43:17 +1000 Received: from localhost (petros@localhost)h55Cetm01463; Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:40:55 +1000 X-Authentication-Warning: purzelina.optusnet.com.au: petros owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 22:40:55 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Ross X-X-Sender: petros@purzelina.optusnet.com.au To: Kip Macy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 12:43:25 -0000 On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Kip Macy wrote: > .. I > see a number of things that FreeBSD really needs to be on equal footing > that I would like to see get going and would like to contribute towards, > but realize that I don't have the time to do it myself and still pay my > mortgage. I'm wondering if people are interested in getting together, or > are simply too busy to do anything but bemoan their absence. I was fired weeks ago so I have some time left;-) And I am a little bit tired of systems administration. After years of reading kernel code (last year especially Linux NFS :-( it would be my first kernel coding. I can imagine to do some work related to FreeBSD clustering. Especially no. 1 sounds interesting. > 1) Shared storage: iscsi initiator > A while back, I signed up to write an iscsi initiator. After having > written an iscsi target, I now realize that I don't have the time to > write an initiator by myself (at least not unpaid). > Time required for development: 3 man months I found: Nate Lawson on freebsd-scsi ( Fri, 28 Mar 2003) > .. Since there is no public iSCSI implementation for FreeBSD, I > have to assume you are using the wrong mailing list. I assume you have more information? What's already done? Is someone else working on it? Regards Peter