From owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 09:26:16 2003 Return-Path: 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 7BDFA37B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:26:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from walnut.he.net (walnut.he.net [64.71.137.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A0F43FCB for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:26:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kmacy@fsmware.com) Received: from localhost (kmacy@localhost) by walnut.he.net (8.8.6p2003-03-31/8.8.2) with ESMTP id JAA19558; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:26:08 -0700 Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 09:26:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Kip Macy X-Sender: kmacy@walnut.he.net To: Gabriel Ambuehl In-Reply-To: <173512061890.20030421152402@buz.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Clustering FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:26:16 -0000 > whatever distro I touch, I just find it unnatural to work with. I can understand the feeling. But depending on one's needs, it is less work than going and writing the tools. > done with a network block device just as well but since FreeBSD is > lacking that one as well, iSCSI would be the way to go. > > OpenMOSIX obviously would be cool too then again I currently don't > really see much use for it in my case. I'm targeting small scale compute clusters. GFS and MOSIX would be inappropriate for something with 100s of nodes. -Kip