From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 14: 5:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F49937B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:05:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 872E843F79 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by sasami.jurai.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0TM5svA031188; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:05:54 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:05:54 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: David Gilbert Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. In-Reply-To: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> Message-ID: <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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