Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD?

[Florent Thoumie]

Eric Anderson wrote:
> Florent Thoumie wrote:
>>     I don't know if DRBD [1] is a good implementation (Linux only),
>> but it
>>     works flawlessly, replication is fast (i got ~35MB/s) and it's quite
>>     simple to get it working.
>>
>>     ENBD [2] isn't based on the same concept, it "exports" block devices
>>     through    network via userland application, though it needs a kernel
>>     module for client side.
>>
>>     I'd like something like DRBD exists for FreeBSD but I'm not aware of
>>     such an implementation.
>>
>>     [1] http://www.drbd.org/
>>     [2] http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
>
>
> GEOM Gate does a part of this.  I thing using vinum+geom gate you could
> get a similar setup.
> However, this isn't exactly what I want - I don't need a 'mirror', I
> need a cluster of active machines serving the same disk data.

	Ok, good to know, thanks for pointing this.

> For what it's worth, there is an nbd port:
> net/nbd-server

	I think that's not really the good thing to do, and FreeBSD doesn't
	have support for nbd-client, so I may just forget it :)


                                           -- flz
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