Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:32:09 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de> Cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <20021211153209.B25854@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <3DF60768.7040407@nentec.de>; from sporner@nentec.de on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:25:28PM %2B0100 References: <200212101257.gBACvv609153@splat.grant.org> <3DF5EB88.9090409@nentec.de> <20021210145615.20975.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <3DF60768.7040407@nentec.de>
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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:25:28PM +0100, Andy Sporner wrote:
> > I might be saying something foolish but have any of you investigated
> >GEOM? It might be possible to write an abstraction layer for it that will
> >enable some of the necessary features:
> >
> > - localization transparency
> > - distribution
> > - disconnected mode
> > - blabla... unfortunaly, FreeBSD based only as GEOM is only
> > supported for FreeBSD for now
> >
> >
> This is the main 'gotcha'. The secondary one is that this guy has
> never replied to *any* of my emails and with all the difficulties
> related to time, I simply don't have any more to deal with that as
> well... :-(
He's a busy guy too. Read the freebsd-current list if you want to
see what's going on there; PHK is one of the frequent posters, as GEOM
is now a fundamental component of FreeBSD 5.x.
> I am trying to make this a *bsd neutral environment. This way everybody
> wins. But thanks
> for your opinion...
I don't see other OSes necessarily adopting GEOM, even though it seems
like a sound design. It's an "architectural-underpinnings" type of
software, and nobody is going to switch to it until they start feeling
that what they have is seriously broken or deficient. All IMHO.
-- Clifton
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