From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 15:54:46 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 9423B37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:54:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [66.92.160.223]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9817A43F3F for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:54:44 -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 h0TNsevA033447; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:54:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:54:40 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: David Gilbert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Network block device. In-Reply-To: <20030129235040.GY16038@geekpunk.net> Message-ID: <20030129185154.U8642@sasami.jurai.net> References: <15928.6900.948346.474717@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129170512.Y8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.21248.483298.203713@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129171908.G8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.21992.586804.141143@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129173416.U8642@sasami.jurai.net> <15928.23728.549120.559276@canoe.velocet.net> <20030129180043.S8642@sasami.jurai.net> <20030129235040.GY16038@geekpunk.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, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > IMO NBD is less of a hack than you think it is. It is one of the > necessary components for creating a single system image from a cluster > of commodity hardware and this is something Linux developers are working > earnestly on. They're targeting a poor man's NUMA. Sorry, it still sounds dumb. They should really look at Sprite. (And anyone thats doing clustering and not looking at VMS deserves what they get.) On a real cluster running a single image all all the drives would just show up. There wouldn't be any hacking going on. Stuff like this kind of requires 64 bit machines to be at all useful. -- | 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