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Date:      Sat, 12 Mar 2005 09:34:39 +0800
From:      yf-263 <yfyoufeng@263.net>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
Subject:   Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <1110591280.7030.17.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <20050311183934.GB29287@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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在 2005-03-11五的 10:39 -0800,Brooks Davis写道:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> > Speaking of filesytems :),  I have a real need for a global filesystem (or 
> > shared fs, or clustered fs, or whatever), and my favorite OS doesn't have 
> > one (that I know of!).  I saw that a few years back a few people were 
> > working on getting GFS working on FreeBSD, but there's no recent mention of 
> > that.  
> > Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it?  I am not 
> > much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test this technology under 
> > all types of loads, and we are currently using a commercial software to 
> > handle my needs (polyserve - which they have flat out told me 'no' for 
> > FreeBSD support), but I would much prefer to be on FreeBSD.
> 
> If you've got money to throw at the problem, you might talk to Isilon
> and Panasas.  Both build clustered storge solutions (you buy their
> hardware) that happen to be based on FreeBSD.  They are currently
> targeting Linux, but it might be fairly easy for them to support FreeBSD
> given sufficent motivation.

www.lustre.org of www.clusterfs.com is now working on porting its Lustre
to Darwin/FreeBSD, and you may want have a look p(^o^)q

> 
> -- Brooks
> 
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