From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 1 09:28:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33EC51065674 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:28:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mandrei05@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE9378FC22 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 09:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so447559fxm.3 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:28:34 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=g9ZlYwFHaAzrzrd0hy0oenXJgLZvmtm26arutAD17zM=; b=KVzzagLGMbf39jH2kdNekoM9hLL/qBryTndNSwxoRVPM4FTS87iXvOego09o4Wyraa rmmKHVgZ0Hx0CXPtttfsp8Y2dFO2R7viSoPBhB1C/WLJz3bVpH+98SLTSvPZ5rG9PwIB K478D/+U9xr2lyxVbrIaCDMdtG+NPjxB0AFb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=DcDwfmmhfynZpK1+3apPCOZz76UEH6qoW38703qKLIPZfOIPAjgat5DbQYQKRyFDCB qWr5fKMYVkPzB57UG/iUsxN1ZMOOuFIjUKJJJGl1f49C7qB0gzJ2zMO3t5zWmp64Gyha bzWRbD0d5y49BozpfS0fPnlwTGaeK9vE7pqtE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.166.84 with SMTP id a20mr414470hbe.116.1267434045561; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:00:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100228120015.1D03310656B0@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20100228120015.1D03310656B0@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 10:00:45 +0100 Message-ID: From: Andrei Manescu To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: freebsd-cluster Digest, Vol 136, Issue 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:28:39 -0000 Hello Erik, Why would ggate geom module not suit you ? (You haven't mentioned it, but since you've been using FreeBSD since 2.1 I'm sure you're familiar with it). 2010/2/28 > Send freebsd-cluster mailing list submissions to > freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > freebsd-cluster-request@freebsd.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > freebsd-cluster-owner@freebsd.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of freebsd-cluster digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Cluster Filesystem on FreeBSD (Erik Scholtz, ArgonSoft GmbH) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 12:09:51 +0100 > From: "Erik Scholtz, ArgonSoft GmbH" > Subject: Cluster Filesystem on FreeBSD > To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4B8A4EFF.9050207@argonsoft.de> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > I did some research the last two weeks on how to build a cluster > filesystem on FreeBSD. > > Since neither GFS ( http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/gfs/ ) nor OCFS2 ( > http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/ ) are ported to FreeBSD, I took a > look at the GlusterFS-project ( http://www.gluster.org/ ), which also > does not compile on FreeBSD 7.x, as well as PVFS ( http://www.pvfs.org/ ). > > My solution at the moment is, to rsync all filesystems once a minute, > which is rather to rare. So I tried to get a hook with KQueue to rsync > the filesystems on data-change. Unfortunatly I could not find a working > solution (had a try with IO::KQueue using perl). > > NFS isn't really a solution, since it is slow (even on 1GBit) and is a > single point of failure: Clustering the NFS server with machines in > stand-by, that do a fail-over on a crash of the master-NFS is unstable > and makes a lot more costs to the project. > > I'm with FreeBSD since the 2.1 release and I really love this system for > it's performance and stability. But in the last year I came very often > to a point, where I had no solution on FreeBSD and several solutions for > Linux (like SAS-support, ...). > > > How do you guys solve this problem (of a shared filesystem with > rw-option)? Any hints are welcome, since I'm getting very frustrated at > the moment. > > Greetings, > Erik > > -- > > My blog: http://blog.elitecoderz.net > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-cluster-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > End of freebsd-cluster Digest, Vol 136, Issue 1 > *********************************************** >