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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD?
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In the last episode (Mar 11), Florent Thoumie said:
> Adam Maloney wrote:
> >On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>Speaking of filesytems :),  I have a real need for a global filesystem
> >>(or
> >
> >"me too"
> 
> 	I don't know if DRBD [1] is a good implementation (Linux only),
> 	but it works flawlessly, replication is fast (i got ~35MB/s)
> 	and it's quite simple to get it working.
> 
> 	ENBD [2] isn't based on the same concept, it "exports" block
> 	devices through network via userland application, though it
> 	needs a kernel module for client side.
> 
> 	I'd like something like DRBD exists for FreeBSD but I'm not aware of
> 	such an implementation.

You want geom_gate.  See the ggatec, ggated, and ggatel manpages.  Note
that none of the packages mentioned so far will give you a cluster
filesystem; they are just a cheaper way of sharing block devices than a
Fibre Channel SAN.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com