From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 14:34:27 2002 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 0DA8737B40C for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:34:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailrelay2.lanl.gov (mailrelay2.lanl.gov [128.165.4.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8693C43EC2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rminnich@lanl.gov) Received: from ccs.lanl.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mailrelay2.lanl.gov (8.12.3/8.12.3/(ccn-5)) with SMTP id gBAMYOgp029784 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:34:24 -0700 Received: (qmail 5246 invoked from network); 10 Dec 2002 15:34:23 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO carotid.ccs.lanl.gov) (128.165.148.162) by 128.165.148.1 with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 15:34:23 -0700 Received: (qmail 1470 invoked by uid 3499); 10 Dec 2002 15:34:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 10 Dec 2002 15:34:23 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 15:34:23 -0700 (MST) From: "Ronald G. Minnich" X-X-Sender: rminnich@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov To: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" Cc: freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster In-Reply-To: <003501c2a09b$5f5116c0$0301000a@LAPTOP> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck) wrote: > Lets not put Linux down like that. ;-)) I like "Linux is the new Unix." > better. ;-) I think FreeBSD would run all these Linux things just as well as Linux does. I sure wish somebody would look at bproc for FreeBSD. > GlobalFS for potential ports would be a good start. I don't know anyone who "GlobalFS" in general is bad. global anything is bad. Consider Private Name Spaces. > - Process migration, cluster wide /proc, GlobalFS or Other (ClusterFS?), no, please check out Plan 9, cluster-wide /proc is not a good thing. At most you want the bproc-style proc. Anything that involves global consensus is going to give you headaches. > - Scale to 100s of nodes. start at 1024. > - Cluster wide shared memory. eek. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message