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Date:      Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:39:26 -0500
From:      "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" <car@vitalit.com>
To:        <freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: sharing files within a cluster
Message-ID:  <006101c29fe4$a13fad60$0301000a@LAPTOP>
References:  <20021209160251.E10322-100000@fubar.adept.org>

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    Shared SCSI would probably be the way to go in this situation.  iSCSI
(not sure of driver status) and vinum should enable software RAID mirroring
of file systems over a network providing you fail-over capabilities without
shared SCSI.

> > You are wanting a single-system-image cluster.  Not many *nix vendors
> > have got this right (Tru64 quite highly rated in this regard) and none
> > of the free Unices AFAIK.
>
> Sounds like we need to bribe some Tru64 folks. ;)

    Compaq/DEC/HP is porting some of their single-system-image clustering
code to Linux.
    http://ssic-linux.sf.net
    We can only hope FreeBSD will offer single-system-image clustering one
day, but who knows.



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