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Date:      Wed, 11 Dec 2002 09:37:20 +1030
From:      Greg Lewis <glewis@eyesbeyond.com>
To:        "Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck)" <car@vitalit.com>
Cc:        freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sharing files within a cluster
Message-ID:  <20021211093720.B11028@misty.eyesbeyond.com>
In-Reply-To: <004901c2a09e$cae92870$0301000a@LAPTOP>; from car@vitalit.com on Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:52:18PM -0500
References:  <Pine.LNX.4.44.0212101531170.1460-100000@carotid.ccs.lanl.gov> <004901c2a09e$cae92870$0301000a@LAPTOP>

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On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:52:18PM -0500, Rouzer, Charles A (Chuck) wrote:
> > > - Cluster wide shared memory.
> >
> > eek.
> 
>   I would think that being able to suspend and move processes between
> machines would be a good thing.

You don't need shared memory to do this.  Look at technologies like
BProc and Open MOSIX.  The holy grail here is not only process migration
but process checkpoint and restarting.

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Greg Lewis                          Email   : glewis@eyesbeyond.com
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