From owner-freebsd-fs Thu Feb 22 3:41:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.mixx.net (hermes.mixx.net [212.84.196.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64B5337B401 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:41:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from news-list.freebsd.fs@innominate.de) Received: from mate.bln.innominate.de (cerberus.berlin.innominate.de [212.84.234.251]) by hermes.mixx.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1BE3F807 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:41:14 +0100 (CET) Received: by mate.bln.innominate.de (Postfix, from userid 9) id ABE752CA70; Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:41:14 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Graichen Reply-To: Thomas Graichen X-Newsgroups: innominate.bln.list.freebsd.fs Subject: Re: Porting GFS to FreeBSD Date: 22 Feb 2001 11:41:14 GMT Organization: innominate AG, Berlin, Germany Lines: 38 Distribution: local Message-ID: References: <20010221180210.0E90037B401@hub.freebsd.org> X-Trace: mate.bln.innominate.de 982842074 6564 10.0.0.31 (22 Feb 2001 11:41:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@innominate.de User-Agent: tin/1.4.4-20000803 ("Vet for the Insane") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.1-XFS (i686)) To: fs@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mike Declerck wrote: > All, > Sistina Software Inc is in the process of evaluating the effort to port the > Global File System from Linux to FreeBSD. Before someone starts harping on > the GPL let me state that Sistina is willing to have a separate license for > the *BSD community so if we could put that discussion off to a later time I > would appreciate it. > For people who don't know about GFS you can find technical information > concerning it at -> http://www.sistina.com > Here is a quick description: > The Global File System (GFS) is a shared disk cluster file system for Linux. > GFS supports journaling and recovery from client failures. GFS cluster nodes > physically share the same storage by means of Fibre Channel, shared SCSI > devices or network block devices. The file system appears to be local on each > node and GFS synchronizes file access across the cluster. GFS is fully > symmetric, that is, all nodes are equal and there is no server which may be a > bottleneck or single point of failure. GFS uses read and write caching while > maintaining full UNIX file system semantics. i think also important to note here (for all who don't know GFS well) that GFS is also useable quite well as a local filesystem - that means porting it to FreeBSD would result in a journaling 64bit (ok - no problem for FreeBSD :o) filesystem which also can handle large directories very well ... i think beneath the really cool aspect of a clustered filesystem this is also something which looks pretty interesting t -- thomas.graichen@innominate.com innominate AG the linux architects tel: +49-30-308806-13 fax: -77 http://www.innominate.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message