Cluster Filesystem for FreeBSD - any interest?

[Eric Anderson]

yf-263 wrote:
> 在 2005-06-21二的 09:35 -0500，Eric Anderson写道：
> 
>>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)?
>>
>>If there are enough developers, we can get the details ironed out and 
>>start real software for this.
>>
>>What is everyone's thoughts on this?  Who's interested?
> 
> 
> I have the great interests on it.
> 
> But as you see in http://www.clusterfs.com/lustre_is_oss.html  #In what
> way does Lustre have "open-development"?
> 
> "Our experience in developing distributed file systems for more than 10
> years has been that the open source community contributes relatively few
> bug fixes."
> 
> So the work need a strong support from its experiences.
> 
> Also I have opened a discuss on following link
> http://bbs.chinaunix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=544517

Unfortunately, I can't read chinese.

I understand that many of those projects fail because of a lack of bug 
reporting, but I believe that is partly due to the userbase of the 
current cluster filesystems (being nearly all linux users, most of them 
in a lab environment, etc),  and also the lack of solid docs.  Lustre is 
a very interesting package, but it doesn't work on FreeBSD.  I could use 
GFS, or luster, or another one with Linux, but I want to use FreeBSD.

Now, to be clear, I'm talking about a clustered filesystem, not a 
distributed filesystem.

Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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