Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:24:02 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com> Cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD Message-ID: <173512061890.20030421152402@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0304201700310.30275-100000@walnut.he.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0304201700310.30275-100000@walnut.he.net>
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-----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-----
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