From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 19:53:20 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 289B316A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:53:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0BB243D41 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 19:53:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2BJrHKU055236; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:53:17 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4231F729.2080107@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:53:13 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/761/Thu Mar 10 15:01:48 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 19:53:20 -0000 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------