Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 01:23:57 +0100 From: Brad Knowles <brad@stop.mail-abuse.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <p06200711bdd41029ca38@[10.0.1.2]> In-Reply-To: <20041201233852.GA35465@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org><98CE9C0241F1FC59BB8F0547@[192.168 .1.16]> <20041201233852.GA35465@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At 3:38 PM -0800 2004-12-01, Kris Kennaway quoted Jason C. Wells:
>> This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a SAN
>> from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the
>> above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now.
>
> I'd be very interested to try using this for package builds, btw.
> Currently I have to rsync a lot of data to the remote build clients,
> which takes a very long time.
It's interesting that you mention this. I've been giving some
thought to how I might be able to dive in and start seriously working
on building my UltraSPARC cluster (based on the four U10 clones I
have already, plus as many U5s as I can throw into the mix), and I
was hoping to find a better solution than NFS, and AFS/Coda/OpenAFS
was tops of my list of alternatives to consider.
In particular, if I can get this thing working reasonably well,
I'd like to turn this into a package building cluster for
FreeBSD/UltraSPARC, and maybe see if there are some other
applications I can put it to during the idle times.
I'm still looking for instructions on how the existing FreeBSD
package building clusters are put together. That plus various
bits-n-pieces I've found (mostly from Brooks) should help me figure
out how to try to build my own.
--
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