Introduction & RE: Clustering with Freebsd

[Frank Mayhar]

Phil E. wrote:
> I have been doing a lot of research and am wondering if perhaps this may be
> a place to start as far as a file system foundation:
> 
> http://wiki.ethereal.com/ATA_20Over_20Ethernet
> 
> Here is more from the developer:
> 
> http://www.coraid.com/documents/SATAEtherDrive.pdf

There are Linux-based clustered filesystems already extant.  It's generally
more efficient, I think, to do the clustering at a higher level than down at
the device level (I haven't read those documents, but "ATA over Ethernet"
sounds pretty low-level to me).

You might take a look at the stuff in OpenSSI, http://www.openssi.org/,
for a few pointers or ideas.  Certainly there's a clustered file system
there but it's by no means the only one.
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