iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD

[Gabriel Ambuehl]

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Hello Kip,

Monday, April 21, 2003, 2:22:44 AM, you wrote:
> On question that I ask myself, even as someone who strongly prefers
> FreeBSD to Linux,  is "why does it matter if clustering is done on
> Linux or on FreeBSD?". Linux has a huge momentum advantage in this
> area. The only thing that FreeBSD obviously adds is that companies
> could add their own mods without being forced to open-source them.

This is gonna be somewhat offtopic:

Well it would save us from working with the mess that Linux is. I mean
every few months, I decide to look at it and every time I ran away
from it in disgust. Sure there are quite a few cool things that
FreeBSD lacks (IBM supported IBM JDK, OpenMosix) but all in all,
whatever distro I touch, I just find it unnatural to work with.

Gentoo's portage is cool, sure, but all in all I can do most it does
with portupgrade too (although portupgrade is notorious for f***** up
dependencies).

So if I had to name three things FreeBSD really needs:
- - JDK
- - working binary upgrades (mostly ports)
- - iSCSI

iSCSI would be really nice because it would make it very simple to
mirror drives over a network in realtime. Theoretically, this can be
done with a network block device just as well but since FreeBSD is
lacking that one as well, iSCSI would be the way to go.

OpenMOSIX obviously would be cool too then again I currently don't
really see much use for it in my case.


Best regards,
 Gabriel

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