From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 07:44:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA72106564A for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from mailer.gwdg.de (mailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 403B48FC1D for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de ([134.76.8.60]) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KR0B5-0007pE-NR for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:44:55 +0200 Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:44:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20080807092636.J28450@gwdu60.gwdg.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Subject: Cluster Filesystem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 07:44:57 -0000 Hello, I'd like to know whether there are any works on a cluster filesystem for FreeBSD. Here in our environment, we use StorNext for Linux and OS X, and Quantum people told me that they once also had a kernel module for FreeBSD. But because there was a lack of demands they stopped maintaining it. I really like UFS, and maybe ZFS is wonderful, too; but a cluster filesystem has many charms in a large production environment: load distribution, redundancy in case of failures, ... Thanks for any reply Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de