Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:53:13 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <4231F729.2080107@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <p0621020bbe579dfa8772@[128.113.24.47]> References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <p0621020bbe579dfa8772@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 10:39 AM -0800 3/11/05, Brooks Davis wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: >> >> > Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it? >> > I am not much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test >> > this technology under all types of loads, and we are currently >> > using a commercial software to handle my needs (polyserve - which >> > they have flat out told me 'no' for 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. > > > If you've got money to throw at the problem, you could throw it > at OpenAFS... :-) > > http://www.usenix.org/about/openafs/ > > However, usenix still haven't gotten back to me about whether I > could earmark my donations for OpenAFS on *specific* platforms... > I think if I knew it was going to FreeBSD work, I could swing that. I'm all for helping out a project like that, but in this case, I really need a result I can use in FreeBSD, not linux. If I needed it in linux, I'd just use GFS in it's current state :) Thanks for the link.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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