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Date:      Tue, 30 Jun 1998 17:12:02 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Clusters, Distributed File Systems and FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <19980630171202.D1880@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <199806220450.MAA15275@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>; from Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth on Mon, Jun 22, 1998 at 12:50:45PM %2B0800
References:  <199806220450.MAA15275@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>

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On Monday, 22 June 1998 at 12:50:45 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:
>
> Is anyone doing work on distributed filesystems (where files can be spread
> across > 1 node) on FreeBSD? The reason I'm interested is because I'm working
> for a Seismic DP company, and we use clusters all over the place (mainly IBM
> SP2 systems). They share filesystems using PIOFS, where each node has a 4GB
> disk shared out out. These are combined together and seen as one ginormous fs.

I'm planning to put support for multi-node plexes into Vinum.  This is
more remote replication than distributed file systems, of course.  If
you or anybody else have any suggestions or wishes, please let me
know.

Greg
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