iSCSI and clustering with FreeBSD

[Andy Sporner]

Hi

It's about time for me to get back in the fray here.

As far as I know there is no work being done on I-scsi.  It would be
a  *VERY* welcome work.  If you have kernel questions--ask!!  I
have bandwidth for questions--just not the whole project.  I am
well versed with drivers in FreeBSD.

I am (finally!!!) finishing the failover effort for FreeBSD.  It is
sort of like what Sequent had in their clusters (minus lock manager).
I think wish to tackle process migration.  I have a good idea what has
to be done and I don't think 2 year is the target.  Once I can start
it could be 2-3 months.  (I know I said that back in January--but
then again how many times has 5.0 release been delayed ;-))

Andy




Peter Ross wrote:

>On Sun, 20 Apr 2003, Kip Macy wrote:
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>>.. I
>>see a number of things that FreeBSD really needs to be on equal footing
>>that I would like to see get going and would like to contribute towards,
>>but realize that I don't have the time to do it myself and still pay my
>>mortgage. I'm wondering if people are interested in getting together, or
>>are simply too busy to do anything but bemoan their absence.
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>I was fired weeks ago so I have some time left;-)
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>And I am a little bit tired of systems administration. After years of
>reading kernel code (last year especially Linux NFS :-( it would be my
>first kernel coding.
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>I can imagine to do some work related to FreeBSD clustering. Especially
>no. 1 sounds interesting.
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>>1) Shared storage: iscsi initiator
>>A while back, I signed up to write an iscsi initiator. After having
>>written an iscsi target, I now realize that I don't have the time to 
>>write an initiator by myself (at least not unpaid). 
>>Time required for development: 3 man months 
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>I found:
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>Nate Lawson <nate at root.org> on freebsd-scsi ( Fri, 28 Mar 2003)
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>>.. Since there is no public iSCSI implementation for FreeBSD, I
>>have to assume you are using the wrong mailing list.
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>I assume you have more information? What's already done? Is someone else 
>working on it?
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>Regards
>Peter
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