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Date:      Wed, 22 Jun 2005 06:53:22 -0500
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        yfyoufeng@263.net
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Cluster Filesystem for FreeBSD - any interest?
Message-ID:  <42B95132.6090907@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <1119404628.2297.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References:  <42B825CC.806@centtech.com> <1119404628.2297.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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yf-263 wrote:
> =E5=9C=A8 2005-06-21=E4=BA=8C=E7=9A=84 09:35 -0500=EF=BC=8CEric Anderso=
n=E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A
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>>This is something I've brought up before on other lists, but I'm curiou=
s=20
>>if anyone is interested in developing a BSD licensed clustered=20
>>filesystem for FreeBSD (and anyone else)?
>>
>>If there are enough developers, we can get the details ironed out and=20
>>start real software for this.
>>
>>What is everyone's thoughts on this?  Who's interested?
>=20
>=20
> I have the great interests on it.
>=20
> But as you see in http://www.clusterfs.com/lustre_is_oss.html  #In what=

> way does Lustre have "open-development"?
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> "Our experience in developing distributed file systems for more than 10=

> years has been that the open source community contributes relatively fe=
w
> bug fixes."
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> So the work need a strong support from its experiences.
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> Also I have opened a discuss on following link
> http://bbs.chinaunix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3D544517

Unfortunately, I can't read chinese.

I understand that many of those projects fail because of a lack of bug=20
reporting, but I believe that is partly due to the userbase of the=20
current cluster filesystems (being nearly all linux users, most of them=20
in a lab environment, etc),  and also the lack of solid docs.  Lustre is =

a very interesting package, but it doesn't work on FreeBSD.  I could use =

GFS, or luster, or another one with Linux, but I want to use FreeBSD.

Now, to be clear, I'm talking about a clustered filesystem, not a=20
distributed filesystem.

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
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