From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 14:53:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF86637B966 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 14:53:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA00626; Wed, 10 May 2000 14:51:56 -0700 Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 14:52:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ Global Filesystem ] a thought to mull over ... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 10 May 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 2:28 PM -0700 5/10/00, Matthew Jacob wrote: > >[ I'll be gone for about 3 weeks, so I'm throwing this over my > >shoulder as I go - I'll check reponses, interest level when I > >get back ... ] > > > >What do folks feel about a port of Global Filesystem (see the > >URL http://www.gobalfilesystem.org) to FreeBSD? > > Try: > http://www.globalfilesystem.org/ > > (you missed an 'L') I need a vacation.... > > > >I believe that despite some of the issues that one can take up > >about their approach, it's the closest to a SAN-ready solution > >that I've seen in the Open Source space as yet. > > How does this compare to things like ARLA or CODA? I don't know ARLA. Different intents than CODA. This filesystem is intended to be a shared local (well, fabric) filesystem across heterogenous hosts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message