Clustering options
Eric Anderson
anderson at centtech.com
Tue Nov 23 16:48:22 GMT 2004
Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> wrote:
> > I'm interested in clustered filesystems to be used for high-availability
> > scalable NFS servers.
>
> For that purpose I can recommend NetApp filers (which can
> be clustered to achieve HA configurations).
>
> Not exactly a FreeBSD-based solution (although their firm-
> ware _is_ based on some BSD, I have heard), and not a cheap
> one, though. But it works very nicely.
While NetApps are nice, they are *WAY* too costly for most uses. They
have priced themselves out of a very large market.
We currently are using some clustering software from Polyserve, but it
only runs on linux (Suse and Redhat). It's great stuff, and I can
honestly say the support and all is pretty good - but doesn't run with
FreeBSD. I've nagged them about it, but they claim there's no market
for them..
I see projects like lustre, and opengfs, and wonder 'why not for
FreeBSD?'.. If I were a good coder, I'd work on porting it..
Eric
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