Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 07:10:14 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Block based distributed file system Message-ID: <44896526.7030303@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20060608210350.47706f4e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <20060608210350.47706f4e.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Tom Rhodes wrote: > Hey, > > Just got hit with questions about "block based distributed file > system solutions on BSD." Similar to NetBSD iSCSI or Redhat's > GFS. Any ideas on how to do this on FreeBSD? Perhaps docs > somewhere I can read? Thanks, > I'm not sure whether you're looking for a network block device, or a distributed file system, but there are a few options: iscsi for freebsd (very new, patches floating), ggate (geom gate - share a geom device over the net), and nbd serving from FreeBSD. As far as a distributed file system for FreeBSD, the only real options are NFS, coda, afs, and Ivan Voras' tdfs (runs under Fuse, probably lightly tested). There is no cluster file system for FreeBSD (this makes me very sad), and I've tried at length to gather people to build or port one. What are your needs? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44896526.7030303>