From owner-freebsd-fs Wed Feb 21 13:57:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23DE137B4EC for ; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:57:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1LLvFf28585; Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:57:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102212157.f1LLvFf28585@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Declerck Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting GFS to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <20010221180210.0E90037B401@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:57:15 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Declerck wrote: > All, > > Sistina Software Inc is in the process of evaluating the effort to port the > Global File System from Linux to FreeBSD. Before someone starts harping on > the GPL let me state that Sistina is willing to have a separate license for > the *BSD community so if we could put that discussion off to a later time I > would appreciate it. > > For people who don't know about GFS you can find technical information > concerning it at -> http://www.sistina.com [With my Yahoo! hat on] Wow! The subject of GFS came up a few days ago, including the possibility of doing a port to FreeBSD ourselves if nothing else turned up. The timing of this is amazing! > What I would like to find out from the list is: > > o Is there any interest in having GFS ported to FreeBSD (I believe there is)? Count a definite Yes! from Yahoo. > o Is there a particular FreeBSD market segment that would be more open than > others in looking at a cluster/cluster FS environent (http, smtp, imap > clusters) We have a particular application in mind, but the whole SAN thing opens up a lot of possibilities in clusters, > o Is there anyone in the FreeBSD community willing to work with us (either for > pay or as an open source participant) on the port? The project has a number of people with expertise in the VFS area. > o Are there any FreeBSD enterprise entities who might be willing to fund the > port? There are a number of entities who would benefit from this. Many are used to providing support or assistance for making things happen. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message