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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ------------------------------------------------------------------
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