From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 18:39:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA0216A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:39:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB97243D1F for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:39:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j2BIdYs6010107; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:39:34 -0800 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j2BIdYj7010106; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:39:34 -0800 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:39:34 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Eric Anderson Message-ID: <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:39:37 -0000 --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Speaking of filesytems :), I have a real need for a global filesystem (o= r=20 > shared fs, or clustered fs, or whatever), and my favorite OS doesn't have= =20 > one (that I know of!). I saw that a few years back a few people were=20 > working on getting GFS working on FreeBSD, but there's no recent mention = of=20 > that. =20 > Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it? I am not= =20 > much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test this technology und= er=20 > all types of loads, and we are currently using a commercial software to= =20 > handle my needs (polyserve - which they have flat out told me 'no' for=20 > FreeBSD support), but I would much prefer to be on FreeBSD. If you've got money to throw at the problem, you might talk to Isilon and Panasas. Both build clustered storge solutions (you buy their hardware) that happen to be based on FreeBSD. They are currently targeting Linux, but it might be fairly easy for them to support FreeBSD given sufficent motivation. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCMeXlXY6L6fI4GtQRAkYlAKCfIY79i8kY2lah6sWAKbcHi64YmwCeOAH9 P/oMfXL8gmngOoWFKWAeeqs= =JXWi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --FkmkrVfFsRoUs1wW--