Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 21:51:06 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> To: Andy Sporner <sporner@nentec.de> Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for Cluster Recommendations Message-ID: <20040405211409.F644@guckloch.zuhause> In-Reply-To: <40711AB9.6010602@nentec.de> References: <002401c419e7$76692ac0$2f01a8c0@MICHAELIWZHLNY> <987274454.20040404124312@buz.ch> <40711AB9.6010602@nentec.de>
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On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Andy Sporner wrote: > I had a rather nice suggestion from somebody "down under" that made > sense and I wanted to get it in. Propably it was me, a German in Melbourne;-) > At 20:00 (Berlin Standard time) I will release an initial release of > FREP 2.0 > > Somebody pointed out that It was too bad I couldn't use 'triggers' > to driver the replication. I realized that I had sort of that kind of > thing already, but not generic enough for ordinary use outside of > FREP. So now it is. Great. Congratulations! (I am a little bit ashamed. After a while of unemployment I started to think about some interesting things and discussed it, and when it began to get the right shape, I've got a job and became busy and if spare time was looming I became sick. But I hope it gets better..) > One of the main delays was that the kern_getcwd() functionality > in 5.0 (and 5.2) is wholly unreliable. I had to incorporate a separate > version to make it work correctly. Normally I hate such hacks, but > it seems that the vfs_cache method that was used was not appearing > to be 100% accurate (at least in the kernel). Many times when I > would try to get a full filename I got errors (path component not > a directory) when I passed a vnode of a file in to get the path name. > In a file replication scheme--this is not acceptable. I'm curious to see.. It's in the vnode layer so I assume it's filesystem independent? Regards Peter
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