From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Jul 24 1:20:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0262337B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:20:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.nentec.de (gate2.nentec.de [194.25.215.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E4E43E5E for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 01:20:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sporner@nentec.de) Received: from nenny.nentec.de (root@nenny.nentec.de [153.92.64.1]) by gate.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g6O8KAA25116; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:20:10 +0200 Received: from nentec.de (andromeda.nentec.de [153.92.64.34]) by nenny.nentec.de (8.11.3/8.11.3/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5) with ESMTP id g6O8K8Z28834; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:20:08 +0200 Message-ID: <3D3E6338.1060209@nentec.de> Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:20:08 +0200 From: Andy Sporner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: de-at, de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting SSIC-Linux References: <001201c23290$78624220$be01000a@LAPTOP> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-perl11-milter (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I looked into the home page of the SSI project and it seems to have common goals of the Phase-2 project. The difference is that we have things that are not currenly on their road map (migratable sockets) and a memory strategy that supports clustered shared memory (which they don't have). To port something is nice for getting things quick, but I don't see phase-2 as wholy taking code from SSI. We will share components that are in common with it (such as filesystems and such) but really the phase-2 stuff really only affects the process schedule and VM subsystem. The stuff with sockets is another matter and should be portable. I myself only know the BSD kernel well and I think it would take a person with equal knowledge of both kernels to realize a porting effort. Where re-inventing the wheel is generally a bad thing, I consider it a good thing when such system software is correctly implemented--which is not necessarily possible in a porting effort. -Andy Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck) wrote: > Just curious if anyone has considered porting SSIC-Linux to FreeBSD? > > This is exactly what I'm looking for in the future of FreeBSD >clustering. > >-- >Chuck Rouzer >Vital Information Technology, Inc. >http://www.vitalit.com >http://www.vitalserver.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message