Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:15:51 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20050311211551.GB60575@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <4231F729.2080107@centtech.com> References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <p0621020bbe579dfa8772@[128.113.24.47]> <4231F729.2080107@centtech.com>
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:53:13PM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > >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... If they do, please let us know. I'd definitely toss in the equivalent of a couple of steak dinners (personally, not "corporately"). As the recent discussions on the SAGE mailing list (and elsewhere) have brought up, we're going to need either AFS or NFSv4 (client *and* server) or an equivalent in the near future to be able to meet newer and more stringent security policies. As a Unix and security consultant, solutions that address that on FreeBSD are a topic of interest to me :-) > 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.. Yes, thanks for the link Garance. -T -- Lonny: "What's that command to add something to SysV init?" Tillman: "c h k tab tab" Lonny: "chkconfig --add!" Tillman: "Cool. I just tab-completed Lonny's brain."
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