From owner-freebsd-fs Fri Apr 12 13:29:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (dynamic.hydro.washington.edu [128.95.246.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD9E37B41A for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:29:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3CKVbO9050504; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) Received: from localhost (penglish@localhost) by dynamic.hydro.washington.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id g3CKVaqs050501; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from penglish@hydro.washington.edu) X-Authentication-Warning: dynamic.hydro.washington.edu: penglish owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 13:31:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Paul English To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multiple host access In-Reply-To: <3CB635B2.E0046EE@mindspring.com> Message-ID: <20020412133119.L58932-100000@dynamic.hydro.washington.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Paul English wrote: > > Does the freebsd filesystem (or any of the options) support multiple host > > access? I'd like to be able to connect several SCSI controllers to one > > RAID array, and have a filesystem that supports it. I've seen searching > > the archives that there was some talk of a GFS port to FreeBSD - I'm all > > for that! > > Multiple access requires that the FS be able to operate on zones, > and the zone locks be mandatorily enforced, rather than advisory. > > The GFS does this by running a daemon, and praying for the next > revision of the SCSI standard so it won't have to run the daemon. > > Now NFS supports multiple host access... 8-). > > For FreeBSD, the option is NFS. Thanks Terry. I guess it is time to price out some gigabit equipment. :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message