From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 15: 5:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0684C37B6DA for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 15:05:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e4AMb5o09277; Wed, 10 May 2000 15:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 15:37:05 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matthew Jacob Cc: Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [ Global Filesystem ] a thought to mull over ... Message-ID: <20000510153705.O28180@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from mjacob@feral.com on Wed, May 10, 2000 at 02:52:16PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matthew Jacob [000510 15:27] wrote: > 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. No offence, the way I read it, it looks like an exportable vn device, hardly state-of-the-art clustering technology. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message