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Date:      Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:21:03 -0400
From:      Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com>
To:        Jurgen Weber <jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: clustered file systems
Message-ID:  <rmi1ui8bn6o.fsf@fnord.ir.bbn.com>
In-Reply-To: <504E627C.70408@theiconic.com.au> (Jurgen Weber's message of "Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:58:20 %2B1000")
References:  <504E627C.70408@theiconic.com.au>

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Jurgen Weber <jurgen.weber@theiconic.com.au> writes:

> Guys
>
> I require a SAN solution for a mail server implementation I am
> designing. The design I am looking for is the following:
>
> https://www.communigate.com/cgatepro/ClusterDynamic.html#OSCluster
>
> This means I require some sort of SAN storage managed by a clustered
> FS, having very little SAN + ClusterFS experience I am research the
> options available to me. FreeBSD being my OS of choice but I found the
> following:
>
> http://blog.elitecoderz.net/cluster-filesystem-for-freebsd-gfs-ocfs2/2010/06/
>
> This blogger mentions that their is no Clustered FS support at this
> point in time for FreeBSD which I find astonishing but I have been
> unable to find anything except for a GlusterFS port using fuse (not
> ideal).

On NetBSD, I have the impression from list reading that glusterfs works
well with perfuse/puffs (filling most of GbE for reads).  I realize
NetBSD's puffs/fuse implementation is different, but people may want to
look at it for porting to FreeBSD.

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