From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 7 19:46:37 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 BE09F16A417 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from ns.trinitel.com (186.161.36.72.static.reverse.ltdomains.com [72.36.161.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A7CC13C4B3 for ; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 19:46:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Received: from 165.61.0.10.in-addr.arpa (72-254-39-241.client.stsn.net [72.254.39.241]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns.trinitel.com (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l77JkaXk034573; Tue, 7 Aug 2007 14:46:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from anderson@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <46B8CC16.9070309@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:46:30 -0500 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org, jarrod@ipglobal.net References: <200708061555.l76FtUo2043815@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200708061555.l76FtUo2043815@lurza.secnetix.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, HELO_DYNAMIC_SPLIT_IP, RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO autolearn=no version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on ns.trinitel.com Cc: Subject: Re: freebsd-cluster X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:46:37 -0000 Oliver Fromme wrote: > 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 > Oh, and I forgot to mention this piece of software: http://www.bsdcluster.com/ I haven't played with it recently, but it was promising when I did play with it about a year ago. It's not a clustered file system implementation, but it does have some failover/HA pieces in it, and some VFS hooks to distribute changes. It's worth a look for sure.. Eric