From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 02:26:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CB3B16A4CE for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:26:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.263.net (mx01.263.net.cn [211.150.96.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF9243D39 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 02:26:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yfyoufeng@263.net) Received: from [10.217.12.198] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.263.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8646C35BD; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:26:29 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from yfyoufeng@263.net) Received: from [10.217.12.198] (unknown [61.135.152.194]) by antispam-2 (Coremail:263(050316)) with SMTP id JAFAANW+gkLxAZjC.1 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 10:26:30 +0800 (CST) X-TEBIE-Originating-IP: [61.135.152.194] From: yf-263 To: Craig Lewis In-Reply-To: <3EA9E48804411F41941A18169042D10401469D@omega3.ebaseweb.com> References: <3EA9E48804411F41941A18169042D10401469D@omega3.ebaseweb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Organization: Unix-driver.org Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 10:25:56 +0800 Message-Id: <1115864757.3938.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: FreeBSD Clustering List Subject: RE: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: yfyoufeng@263.net List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 02:26:34 -0000 在 2005-05-11三的 11:01 -0500，Craig Lewis写道： > Brilliant, this sounds like a great alternative to iscsi! ? So > potentially the 6.0 release might contain aoe? On roughly that time > scale? > > I have had extensive discussion on another list about building a free > bsd based mail server. Since currently our mail server is not that Can you tell where is the discussion ? > heavily loaded I was thinking I might could get away with gigabit, NFS, > and maildir format to 'share' the filesystem between the nodes. Then as That's what we are developing now. > we grew as a company, maybe we could better afford network attatched > storage, and maybe there would be better support in bsd for things like Yes, also the unlimited-disk-space netdisk we supply ;) > iscsi or now AOE. Yes, I know the TCPIP stack and gigabit would consume > lots of cpu, but both of these are getting cheaper and cheaper, and > again.. .we are not even close to a high load situation. > > Any one have comments, experience, or suggestions on the above, or an > even better way to share file systems on io intensive servers like mail > servers. ? I would be interested to hear any summary reports on using > network attatched storage on freebsd. i.e. lessons learned. We drink the same water :) > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Christian > Brueffer > Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 10:42 AM > To: Phil E. > Cc: FreeBSD Clustering List > Subject: Re: Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd > > On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:25:43AM -0600, Phil E. wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > My name is Philip Elder. I reside in St. Albert Alberta, Canada. > > > > My wife and I run our own I.T. business here primarily focused on > Windows > > infrastructure though I still use the command line more than the GUI. > :D > > > > I am pretty green when it comes to FreeBSD. I am learning, slowly. My > goal > > is to build clusters, cluster based storage solutions, and some other > ideas > > jumping around in my mind. I chose FreeBSD because of its stability. > BTW, I > > do not have any programming experience at this time but I am willing > to > > learn to as well. I do have a fair amount of server based > infrastructure > > design, implementation, and support experience though (I've been in > the > > industry since the early 1990's). > > > > I have been doing a lot of research and am wondering if perhaps this > may be > > a place to start as far as a file system foundation: > > > > http://wiki.ethereal.com/ATA_20Over_20Ethernet > > > > Here is more from the developer: > > > > http://www.coraid.com/documents/SATAEtherDrive.pdf > > > > Please feel free to let me know if I am way off base here as this is a > good > > way for me to learn! ;) > > > > Hi Philip, > > the author of that ATA over Ethernet driver has been a committer for a > few month and will probably import it into the source tree. > > - Christian > -- yf-263 Unix-driver.org