From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 16:12:41 2004 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 8BF5D16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:12:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4DB243D49 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:12:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iANGCZum031802; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:12:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41A3616F.20502@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:12:31 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: frank@exit.com References: <200411230544.iAN5iUUQ072091@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <200411230544.iAN5iUUQ072091@realtime.exit.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/598/Sat Nov 20 16:30:09 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Clustering options X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:12:41 -0000 Frank Mayhar wrote: > Well, there's software that does that (or something like it), but not in BSD-land, at > least not yet. Although I agitated hard to port what is now OpenSSI (see > http://www.openssi.org/) to FreeBSD back in 2000, they ported it to Linux instead, > sigh. I would really love it if someone would actually pay me to do the port to > FreeBSD (or, better, to reimplement it). But that's pretty unlikely. Maybe you should take up a collection like others have done. I bet if you are a qualified coder for the project, you could raise enough to do it. There are a lot of people looking for this. I'm interested in clustered filesystems to be used for high-availability scalable NFS servers. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------