Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:49:15 +1100 From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> To: Kamil Choudhury <Kamil.Choudhury@anserinae.net> Cc: "freebsd-fs@freebsd.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Distributed, snapshotting, checksumming filesystems for FreeBSD Message-ID: <4F4C5CCB.3050806@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <3CEE2DA4348D944399A67E308B78D38A1A57CABA@janus.anserinae.net> References: <3CEE2DA4348D944399A67E308B78D38A1A57CABA@janus.anserinae.net>
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On 02/25/12 15:37, Kamil Choudhury wrote: > The dream: a file system spread out over a variable, > ever increasing number of hosts, presenting a single > unified file system to any client host mounting the > file system. > >> From the client's point of view, it is possible to > snapshot the directory view that is presented. The > client also has confidence that data written to the > file system will be returned exactly as it went in. > > Now that I think about it, what I seem to be looking > for is a network aware ZFS that uses hosts as vdevs. > > Is there such a thing out there? AFS perhaps? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_File_System /usr/ports/net/openafs Cheers, Lawrence
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