Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 08:38:23 +1000 From: "Matthew SWINBOURNE" <m.swinbourne@its.uq.edu.au> To: "FreeBSD Clustering List" <freeBSD-Cluster@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd Message-ID: <5B5BBC864783B7439264DD5FF664F2A969F31D@jemima.soe.uq.edu.au>
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Hi All, Something to think about along these lines are TCP Off-Loader (TOE) cards. If you are seriously looking at ATA over ethernet or something similar on any production scale, then these cards are a life saver. Reduce the CPU overhead of running storage via TCP/IP to almost negligable.=20 Cheers, Matt -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Craig Lewis Sent: Thursday, 12 May 2005 2:01 AM To: FreeBSD Clustering List Subject: RE: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd Brilliant, this sounds like a great alternative to iscsi! ? So potentially the 6.0 release might contain aoe? On roughly that time scale? I have had extensive discussion on another list about building a free bsd based mail server. Since currently our mail server is not that heavily loaded I was thinking I might could get away with gigabit, NFS, and maildir format to 'share' the filesystem between the nodes. Then as we grew as a company, maybe we could better afford network attatched storage, and maybe there would be better support in bsd for things like iscsi or now AOE. Yes, I know the TCPIP stack and gigabit would consume lots of cpu, but both of these are getting cheaper and cheaper, and again.. .we are not even close to a high load situation.=20 Any one have comments, experience, or suggestions on the above, or an even better way to share file systems on io intensive servers like mail servers. ? I would be interested to hear any summary reports on using network attatched storage on freebsd. i.e. lessons learned. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christian Brueffer Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:42 AM To: Phil E. Cc: FreeBSD Clustering List Subject: Re: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:25:43AM -0600, Phil E. wrote: > Hello all, >=20 > My name is Philip Elder. I reside in St. Albert Alberta, Canada. >=20 > My wife and I run our own I.T. business here primarily focused on Windows > infrastructure though I still use the command line more than the GUI. :D >=20 > I am pretty green when it comes to FreeBSD. I am learning, slowly. My goal > is to build clusters, cluster based storage solutions, and some other ideas > jumping around in my mind. I chose FreeBSD because of its stability. BTW, I > do not have any programming experience at this time but I am willing to > learn to as well. I do have a fair amount of server based infrastructure > design, implementation, and support experience though (I've been in the > industry since the early 1990's). >=20 > I have been doing a lot of research and am wondering if perhaps this may be > a place to start as far as a file system foundation: >=20 > http://wiki.ethereal.com/ATA_20Over_20Ethernet >=20 > Here is more from the developer: >=20 > http://www.coraid.com/documents/SATAEtherDrive.pdf >=20 > Please feel free to let me know if I am way off base here as this is a good > way for me to learn! ;) >=20 Hi Philip, the author of that ATA over Ethernet driver has been a committer for a few month and will probably import it into the source tree. - Christian --=20 Christian Brueffer chris@unixpages.org brueffer@FreeBSD.org GPG Key: http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/brueffer.key.asc GPG Fingerprint: A5C8 2099 19FF AACA F41B B29B 6C76 178C A0ED 982D _______________________________________________ freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-cluster To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-cluster-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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