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From: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>
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Is anyone doing work on distributed filesystems (where files can be spread 
across > 1 node) on FreeBSD? The reason I'm interested is because I'm working 
for a Seismic DP company, and we use clusters all over the place (mainly IBM 
SP2 systems). They share filesystems using PIOFS, where each node has a 4GB 
disk shared out out. These are combined together and seen as one ginormous fs.

I'm hoping to port our software environment to FreeBSD, initially having it 
set up for an SMP environment (it's based around PVM/MPI, BTW) as I only have 
one node. As time & finances permit, I'll purchase up to 4 boxes using cheap 
hardware for a proof of concept. I'm not expecting earth-shattering 
performance, it's being done mostly to satisfy my own curiousity.


	Stephen


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