From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 3 03:23:51 2004 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 6707716A4CE for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:23:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.intellex.com (mail.intellex.com [199.233.213.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D17D743D41 for ; Fri, 3 Dec 2004 03:23:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@mail.intellex.com) Received: (qmail 81994 invoked by uid 0); 3 Dec 2004 03:30:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 38420 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2004 13:42:30 -0000 Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (216.136.204.119) by smtp.intellex.com with SMTP; 2 Dec 2004 13:42:30 -0000 Received: from hub.freebsd.org (hub.freebsd.org [216.136.204.18]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17BA357A58; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:23:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5C2A16A515; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:22:42 +0000 (GMT) Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DFE516A4CE; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:14:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ims-1.prv.ampira.com (ims-1.ampira.com [66.179.231.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA4D643D62; Thu, 2 Dec 2004 05:14:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kamalp@acm.org) Received: from [202.142.94.194] (helo=[172.16.3.26]) by ims-1.prv.ampira.com with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1CZjFX-0005S4-KO; Thu, 02 Dec 2004 00:11:28 -0500 Message-ID: <41AEA4B8.6080508@acm.org> Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:44:32 +0530 From: "Kamal R. Prasad" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.3 (Windows/20040803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Long References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> <41AE55D7.8020709@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <41AE55D7.8020709@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 13:22:17 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Errors-To: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: "Jason C. Wells" cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:23:51 -0000 I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something like apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who don't need X-windows' powerful graphic features]. regards -kamal Scott Long wrote: > Jason C. Wells wrote: > >> --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long >> wrote: >> >>> 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and >>> clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many >>> storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very >>> powerful. RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source >>> code, so exploring this would be very interesting. >> >> >> >> This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a >> SAN from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned >> in the above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. >> >> Later, >> Jason C. Wells > > > Well, AFS requires an intelligent node in front of each disk. True SAN > clustering means that you have a web of disks directly connected to the > SAN (iSCSI, FibreChannel, etc), and two or more servers on the SAN that > see those disks as a single filesystem (actually a bit more complicated > than this, but you get the point). If one server goes down, no access > to data is lost since the disks can be reached from any other server on > the SAN that is participating in the clustered FS. > > Scott > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"