From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Dec 11 17:32:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F4E37B401; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:32:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from malasada.lava.net (malasada.lava.net [64.65.64.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290BA43EA9; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:32:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cliftonr@lava.net) Received: from localhost (2545 bytes) by malasada.lava.net; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:32:10 -1000 (HST) via sendmail [stdio] id for Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 15:32:09 -1000 From: Clifton Royston To: Andy Sporner Cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira , freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Message-ID: <20021211153209.B25854@lava.net> Mail-Followup-To: Andy Sporner , Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira , freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.org References: <200212101257.gBACvv609153@splat.grant.org> <3DF5EB88.9090409@nentec.de> <20021210145615.20975.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <3DF60768.7040407@nentec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3DF60768.7040407@nentec.de>; from sporner@nentec.de on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 04:25:28PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net "If you ride fast enough, the Specialist can't catch you." "What's the Specialist?" Samantha says. "The Specialist wears a hat," says the babysitter. "The hat makes noises." She doesn't say anything else. Kelly Link, _The Specialist's Hat_ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message