clustered file systems

[Greg Troxel]

Jurgen Weber <jurgen.weber at theiconic.com.au> writes:

> Guys
>
> I require a SAN solution for a mail server implementation I am
> designing. The design I am looking for is the following:
>
> https://www.communigate.com/cgatepro/ClusterDynamic.html#OSCluster
>
> This means I require some sort of SAN storage managed by a clustered
> FS, having very little SAN + ClusterFS experience I am research the
> options available to me. FreeBSD being my OS of choice but I found the
> following:
>
> http://blog.elitecoderz.net/cluster-filesystem-for-freebsd-gfs-ocfs2/2010/06/
>
> This blogger mentions that their is no Clustered FS support at this
> point in time for FreeBSD which I find astonishing but I have been
> unable to find anything except for a GlusterFS port using fuse (not
> ideal).

On NetBSD, I have the impression from list reading that glusterfs works
well with perfuse/puffs (filling most of GbE for reads).  I realize
NetBSD's puffs/fuse implementation is different, but people may want to
look at it for porting to FreeBSD.
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