Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:05:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. Message-ID: <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Gilbert wrote: > While I'm 100% aware of the pitfalls of such a setup, I find myself > implementing linux in a cluster because it can export 5G-ish of a disk > on each node to one machine that generates a gigantic filesystem. This > is done with linux's network-block-device (NBD). I'd like to know if > someone has generated a similar FreeBSD facility. You could use NFS and 'mdconfig/vnconfig'. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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