From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 4 12:28:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from majordomo2.umd.edu (majordomo2.umd.edu [128.8.10.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67EEA1513D for ; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@wam.umd.edu) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (root@rac5.wam.umd.edu [128.8.10.145]) by majordomo2.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA03250; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:28:02 -0500 (EST) Received: from rac5.wam.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA13118; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:28:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by rac5.wam.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA13114; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:28:09 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: rac5.wam.umd.edu: culverk owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 15:28:09 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Wayne Culver To: Artem Koutchine Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clustering software for FreeBSD (search or do it yourself?) In-Reply-To: <003101bf2700$e097ef00$0100a8c0@m1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I think what you may be looking for is using some kind of shared filesystem (I like coda myself, it's very secure, and uses kerberos), in combination with kerberos for authentication, and hesiod for user, and host information. This is basically what we use here at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA. We have about 1200 machines clustered together with about 45000 total active users. We don't use coda though, we use AFS. I suggest coda for FreeBSD because there is no AFS for FreeBSD that is really stable. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D | Kenneth Culver=09 | FreeBSD: The best OS around. | | Unix Systems Administrator | ICQ #: 24767726 | | and student at The | AIM: AgRSkaterq=09 | | The University of Maryland, | Website: (Under Construction) | | College Park.=09=09 | http://www.wam.umd.edu/~culverk/| =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Artem Koutchine wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I have heard that there is some kind of > clustering software which comes with Linux, but i have > never heard about FreeBSD clustering software. However, > i know that YAHOO and HOTMAIL uses FreeBSD joined > in clusters. Is there any (at all) clustering sw for FreeBSD or > just a good example how to do it. >=20 > When i comes to writing such software myself which would be > the best way to interconnect boxes in cluster and connect them > to the main db/filesystem server > 1) NFS? > 2) SHARED SCSI RAID ? > 3) Simple TCP interconnection over local network with home-made transfer = daemons? > 4) something else? >=20 > Artem Koutchine (=E1=D2=D4=C5=CD =EB=D5=DE=C9=CE) > Sys/Net/Web Admin, Web Designer, Programmer > WWW: http://idesign.pp.ru E-Mail: matrix@chat.ru > No attachments w/o my permission!!! > (=EE=C5 =D0=D2=C9=D3=D9=CC=C1=CA=D4=C5 =C6=C1=CA=CC=D9 =C2=C5=DA =D2=C1= =DA=D2=C5=DB=C5=CE=C9=D1!!!) >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message