Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 15:38:52 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <20041201233852.GA35465@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <98CE9C0241F1FC59BB8F0547@[192.168.1.16]> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <98CE9C0241F1FC59BB8F0547@[192.168.1.16]>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long > <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote: > > >5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and > >clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many > >storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very > >powerful. RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source > >code, so exploring this would be very interesting. > > This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a SAN > from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the > above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. I'd be very interested to try using this for package builds, btw. Currently I have to rsync a lot of data to the remote build clients, which takes a very long time. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBrlYMWry0BWjoQKURAuIYAJwP6tHh/UB1YahRTXyGDKuWX8emnACgkTBP wK7YPPoftgaL+Tcrc9IBbtQ= =9SeW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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