From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 23 16:48:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5DE16A4CE for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:48:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F0F43D5E for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:48:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iANGmKeE032417 for ; Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:48:21 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <41A369D1.6000303@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 10:48:17 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org References: <200411231638.iANGctsC037932@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200411231638.iANGctsC037932@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.80/598/Sat Nov 20 16:30:09 2004 clamav-milter version 0.80j on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Clustering options X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:48:22 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Eric Anderson 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------