From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 06:22:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A74B037B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:22:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iota.root-servers.ch (iota.root-servers.ch [193.41.193.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 354EF43F75 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 06:22:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch) Received: (qmail 94860 invoked from network); 21 Apr 2003 13:22:28 -0000 Received: from dclient80-218-106-179.hispeed.ch (HELO gaxp1800.root.li) (80.218.106.179) by 0 with SMTP; 21 Apr 2003 13:22:28 -0000 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:24:02 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62i) Educational Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <173512061890.20030421152402@buz.ch> To: Kip Macy In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:22:34 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Kip, Monday, April 21, 2003, 2:22:44 AM, you wrote: > On question that I ask myself, even as someone who strongly prefers > FreeBSD to Linux, is "why does it matter if clustering is done on > Linux or on FreeBSD?". Linux has a huge momentum advantage in this > area. The only thing that FreeBSD obviously adds is that companies > could add their own mods without being forced to open-source them. This is gonna be somewhat offtopic: Well it would save us from working with the mess that Linux is. I mean every few months, I decide to look at it and every time I ran away from it in disgust. Sure there are quite a few cool things that FreeBSD lacks (IBM supported IBM JDK, OpenMosix) but all in all, whatever distro I touch, I just find it unnatural to work with. Gentoo's portage is cool, sure, but all in all I can do most it does with portupgrade too (although portupgrade is notorious for f***** up dependencies). So if I had to name three things FreeBSD really needs: - - JDK - - working binary upgrades (mostly ports) - - iSCSI iSCSI would be really nice because it would make it very simple to mirror drives over a network in realtime. Theoretically, this can be done with a network block device just as well but since FreeBSD is lacking that one as well, iSCSI would be the way to go. OpenMOSIX obviously would be cool too then again I currently don't really see much use for it in my case. Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.0.2i iQEVAwUBPqPi5sZa2WpymlDxAQGttQf9GUFNOS8ACfjXVWOj/ZaGZiVcw3S1QmNi +OeVO9dOGbtD2J6cpnFHTp2fI2Noh7zJMyNkv+mBbYke9yKj0zHpBilTIDkOwLra 5nCpvY0Vf4u0Lsu4V5YBXHlfGbWK7W1M4fPUUVO+SPmDw96EuhBZfaRR6wMtpEJu gFuSXNDirOGNcKlQ67u7y/14KPNVEKsU9E19TWKvWZRxjkzwC0bIUTGtaDs5SdIs O6lzHs/MSZrZqb3jl1EJVEQLuT4FZQe36ZWZRqkGohl3v196LwHRCeRWRIppqLUj 7qvhHkCtYRyQ7kT8zAJWLXx0ErzrZGDCTKCcMCK0nHQSwVoXhOCYjA== =6fnh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----