From owner-freebsd-cluster Tue Dec 10 14:52:59 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 84A1437B401 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:52:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from vps.vitalit.com (vps.vitalit.com [64.105.194.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC0F243EC2 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:52:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Received: from LAPTOP (gso167-138-145.triad.rr.com [24.167.138.145]) by vps.vitalit.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id gBAMqthQ090240 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:52:56 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from car@vitalit.com) Message-ID: <004901c2a09e$cae92870$0301000a@LAPTOP> From: "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" To: References: Subject: Re: sharing files within a cluster Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 17:52:18 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 > > 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. Sure, FreeBSD runs great and runs Linux apps great, but unfortunately Linux is killing it (everything server wise?) as far as market share, mind share, developers, etc. There are still some impressive leading edge solutions being developed for proprietary unix platforms, but we can see that with the impressive market share and active development of leading edge solutions for Linux, it is clearly the new Unix IMO. I don't want to get into an argument about this I just wanted to emphasize the meaning behind my comment. As recently stated on newsforge.com ... "Enterprise-level software vendors can no longer ignore Linux" We can hope this helps FreeBSD along the way. > > 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. Are we refering to the same thing? I'm refering to the named Global File System originally created by Sistina and also available for Linux only by The OpenGFS Project. What would be a cluster capable file system you might suggest? > > - 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. Why? > > - Scale to 100s of nodes. > > start at 1024. I just want to start with 2. hehe > > - Cluster wide shared memory. > > eek. I would think that being able to suspend and move processes between machines would be a good thing. Chuck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message