From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 6 15:55:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D7A16A418 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:55:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [IPv6:2001:1b20:1:3::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F26713C46C for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:55:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (ytytml@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l76FtUgh043816; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:55:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id l76FtUo2043815; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:55:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:55:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200708061555.l76FtUo2043815@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG, jarrod@ipglobal.net In-Reply-To: <001801c7d839$697f14a0$3c7d3de0$@net> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-cluster User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Mon, 06 Aug 2007 17:55:36 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: freebsd-cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG, jarrod@ipglobal.net List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:55:38 -0000 Jarrod Baumann wrote: > How about and drivers, experimental/beta or not, that exist for > mounting other existing clustered DFS environments? Well, there's FUSE in FreeBSD's ports collection, so you should be able to mount any file system for which there is a FUSE driver available. In theory. FUSE provides an API that allows file system drivers to run in userland. There's a ton of FUSE file systems on its home page ... Most of them are only written and tested on Linux, but it should be possible to compile and run them on FreeBSD with minor efforts.) Other than that, there is no distributed file system for FreeBSD. Coda and AFS have been mentioned, but last time I looked they were not really usable. When a customer asks me to set up clustered storage (HA), I usually recommend a NetApp Filer cluster. At least they use a BSD-derived OS, so it's not completely off-topic. ;-) Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd C++: "an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog" -- Steve Taylor, 1998