Cluster Filesystem for FreeBSD - any interest?

[Allan Fields]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 09:35:56AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> This is something I've brought up before on other lists, but I'm curious 
> if anyone is interested in developing a BSD licensed clustered 
> filesystem for FreeBSD (and anyone else)?

A few questions:

Could this be done as a stackable file system (vnode layer distributed
file system) or did you have something else in mind (i.e. specifically
a full implementation of a network filesystem including storage
layer)?

Why not a port of an existing network filesystem say from Linux?
(A BSD rewrite could be done, if the code was GPLed.)  Would
cross-platform capabilities make sense?

How do you see this comparing to device-level solutions?  I know
the argument can be made to implement file systems/storage
abstractions at multiple layers, but I thought I might ask.

The other thing is there a wealth of filesystem papers out there,
any in specific caught your eye?

> Eric
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> Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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Allan Fields