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Date:      Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:48:17 -0600
From:      Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com>
To:        freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clustering options
Message-ID:  <41A369D1.6000303@centtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200411231638.iANGctsC037932@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <200411231638.iANGctsC037932@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> wrote:
>  > I'm interested in clustered filesystems to be used for high-availability 
>  >   scalable NFS servers.
> 
> For that purpose I can recommend NetApp filers (which can
> be clustered to achieve HA configurations).
> 
> Not exactly a FreeBSD-based solution (although their firm-
> ware _is_ based on some BSD, I have heard), and not a cheap
> one, though.  But it works very nicely.

While NetApps are nice, they are *WAY* too costly for most uses.  They 
have priced themselves out of a very large market.

We currently are using some clustering software from Polyserve, but it 
only runs on linux (Suse and Redhat).  It's great stuff, and I can 
honestly say the support and all is pretty good - but doesn't run with 
FreeBSD.  I've nagged them about it, but they claim there's no market 
for them..

I see projects like lustre, and opengfs, and wonder 'why not for 
FreeBSD?'.. If I were a good coder, I'd work on porting it..

Eric




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