From owner-freebsd-cluster Mon Dec 9 16:40:13 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 D83E837B401 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:40:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from vps.vitalit.com (vps.vitalit.com [64.105.194.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D8143ED8 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 16:40:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Received: from LAPTOP (gso167-138-145.triad.rr.com [24.167.138.145]) by vps.vitalit.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id gBA0e5hQ032022 for ; Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:40:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Message-ID: <006101c29fe4$a13fad60$0301000a@LAPTOP> From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" To: References: <20021209160251.E10322-100000@fubar.adept.org> Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 19:39:26 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message