From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 11 14:56:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95D3716A4CE; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:56:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4FDE43D5F; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:56:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2BEuXg6052135; Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:56:33 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4231B19D.8060406@centtech.com> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:56:29 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.82/761/Thu Mar 10 15:01:48 2005 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 14:56:35 -0000 Speaking of filesytems :), I have a real need for a global filesystem (or shared fs, or clustered fs, or whatever), and my favorite OS doesn't have one (that I know of!). I saw that a few years back a few people were working on getting GFS working on FreeBSD, but there's no recent mention of that. Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it? I am not much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test this technology under all types of loads, and we are currently using a commercial software to handle my needs (polyserve - which they have flat out told me 'no' for FreeBSD support), but I would much prefer to be on FreeBSD. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology I have seen the future and it is just like the present, only longer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------