From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 2 05:10:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CB6C16A4CE; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:10:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vhost109.his.com (vhost109.his.com [216.194.225.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B018943D2D; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:10:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (localhost.his.com [127.0.0.1]) by vhost109.his.com (8.12.11/8.12.3) with ESMTP id iB25AHa3078692; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 00:10:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from brad@stop.mail-abuse.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20041201233852.GA35465@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org><98CE9C0241F1FC59BB8F0547@[192.168 .1.16]> <20041201233852.GA35465@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:23:57 +0100 To: Kris Kennaway From: Brad Knowles Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:34:34 +0000 cc: "Jason C. Wells" cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Scott Long cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:10:30 -0000 At 3:38 PM -0800 2004-12-01, Kris Kennaway quoted Jason C. Wells: >> This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a SAN >> from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the >> above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. > > I'd be very interested to try using this for package builds, btw. > Currently I have to rsync a lot of data to the remote build clients, > which takes a very long time. It's interesting that you mention this. I've been giving some thought to how I might be able to dive in and start seriously working on building my UltraSPARC cluster (based on the four U10 clones I have already, plus as many U5s as I can throw into the mix), and I was hoping to find a better solution than NFS, and AFS/Coda/OpenAFS was tops of my list of alternatives to consider. In particular, if I can get this thing working reasonably well, I'd like to turn this into a package building cluster for FreeBSD/UltraSPARC, and maybe see if there are some other applications I can put it to during the idle times. I'm still looking for instructions on how the existing FreeBSD package building clusters are put together. That plus various bits-n-pieces I've found (mostly from Brooks) should help me figure out how to try to build my own. -- Brad Knowles, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See for more info.