From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 6:11: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from baynet.baynetworks.com (ns1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D24FE37B6C1 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (h016b.s86b1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.1.107]) by baynet.baynetworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id GAA00023 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:09:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (pobox.engeast.baynetworks.com [192.32.61.6]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA29508 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 06:09:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from baynetworks.com (kyzyl [192.32.150.103]) by pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (SMI-8.6/BNET-97/04/24-S) with ESMTP id JAA16330; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:10:42 -0400 for Message-Id: <200006201310.JAA16330@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: High Availability Freebsd? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:10:43 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Given the recent (and ongoing) discussion about the so-called "FreeBSD BIOS", which has obvious HA implications, I'm wondering if there are enough people working on or interested in HA aspects of FreeBSD to begin a project. This would presumably include such things as: - Fairness-based scheduling - Warm (or hot) standby. - Warm (or progressive) restart. - Process replication or virtual synchrony. - Reduced boot time or rommable FreeBSD. - etc. as would take advantage of other ongoing things like the RAID stuff, LFS or journaled file-systems, etc. Not that I want to or would be competant to lead such a project, but I am working in that area, so I wanted to ping potential collaborators. -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 978 288 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message