From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 14:17:43 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 8CC5237B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:17:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre.velocet.net (sabre.velocet.net [216.138.209.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3C7643F3F for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:17:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@velocet.ca) Received: from trooper.velocet.ca (trooper.velocet.net [216.138.242.2]) by sabre.velocet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947001382C2; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:17:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by trooper.velocet.ca (Postfix, from userid 66) id 4D8A17462B; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:17:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.velocet.net (Postfix, from userid 101) id 4A558567628; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:17:37 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 17:17:36 -0500 To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. In-Reply-To: <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid 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 >>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew N Dodd 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