From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 15:45:42 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E13F16A4CE; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org (xbsd.org [82.233.2.192]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 924F643D39; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flz@xbsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBFFB118C9; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:50:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp.xbsd.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (srv1.xbsd.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 53038-04; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:50:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.20.107] (ALagny-109-1-7-69.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.48.69]) by smtp.xbsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D71211701; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:50:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4231BD14.3080506@xbsd.org> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:45:24 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050107) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> <4231B7D5.3070306@xbsd.org> <4231BC11.7030604@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4231BC11.7030604@centtech.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.6.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41" X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at xbsd.org cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:45:42 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Eric Anderson wrote: > Florent Thoumie wrote: >> 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. >> >> [1] http://www.drbd.org/ >> [2] http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/ > > > GEOM Gate does a part of this. I thing using vinum+geom gate you could > get a similar setup. > However, this isn't exactly what I want - I don't need a 'mirror', I > need a cluster of active machines serving the same disk data. Ok, good to know, thanks for pointing this. > For what it's worth, there is an nbd port: > net/nbd-server I think that's not really the good thing to do, and FreeBSD doesn't have support for nbd-client, so I may just forget it :) -- flz --------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCMb0YMxEkbVFH3PQRAoczAJ9S95VTX3riUxcad+5317RBHZYGTQCfT4E5 /Zcsxt085QphQgy1JpPPw94= =wYRE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigB0C0EF517BD0A6FC0EC57F41--