Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:17:36 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. Message-ID: <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net>
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>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew N Dodd <winter@jurai.net> writes: Matthew> 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. Matthew> You could use NFS and 'mdconfig/vnconfig'. but that would be no different than using the nfs directly. mdconfig won't aggregate several chunks of files ... and last I checked md wasn't entirely happy with nfs (some form of chicken-and-egg problem) Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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