From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 24 13:12:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59536150F7 for ; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:12:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA15663; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:08:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199908242008.NAA15663@implode.root.com> To: Terry Lambert Cc: mikel@zso.dec.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Clustering? In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:55:36 -0000." <199908241955.MAA01709@usr09.primenet.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:08:01 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >> FreeBSD doesn't support shared filesystems. You would need to add support >> for that into FFS and presumably get or implement a distributed lock manager. > >The David Sarnoff stuff supports this. It would not be too >difficult to hack up the disctubted memory coherency manager >to use low level SCSI I/O primitives to support this. I thought the Sarnoff stuff was a DSM implementation. If so, then it's not what we're talking about (shared access to filesystems). -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message