FreeBSD Clustering wishlist - Was: Introduction & RE:Clustering with Freebsd

[Eric Anderson]

yf-263 wrote:
> 在 2005-05-15日的 13:55 -0500，Eric Anderson写道：
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>>Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
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>>>yf-263 wrote:
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>>>>在 2005-05-11三的 22:45 -0500，Eric Anderson写道：
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>>>>>Ok - I'm changing the subject here in an attempt to gather information.
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>>>>>Here's my wishlist:
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>>>>As for your wishlists, how about the MogileFS of
>>>>http://www.danga.com/mogilefs/
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>>>>And what do you think about our GoogleFS like && MogileFS features
>>>>Clustre FS ?
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>>>"Yes, this means your application has to specifically use a MogileFS
>>>client library to store and retrieve files."
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>>>I don't call that a filesystem, really.  Stuff like this has its uses,
>>>but for general use, you need something that's entirely transparent to
>>>the app.
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>>I agree.  It has to look and feel like an OS to my apps.  I need to NFS 
>>share it to systems so they can access it as NFS clients.  Besides, 
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> For our FS in the paper now only ;), you need no NFS. As two years
> before, I have implemented a NFS like server in userspace, and a NFS
> like client (kernel module) for Linux, AIX, and Solaris, which has been
> saled to a big user two years ago. I can bring it onto various platform,
> so no NFS is need;)

Are you the one that has written the paper, and developed the code?  It 
appears as a regular filesystem to apps?


>>MogileFS doesn't even sound like a filesystem:
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> Maybe I should add the missing one, we want to supply the MogileFS
> features in our FS.



>> From the website:
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>>MogileFS is not:
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>>     * POSIX Compliant -- you don't run regular Unix applications or 
>>databases against MogileFS. It's meant for archiving write-once files 
>>and doing only sequential reads. (though you can modify a file by way of 
>>overwriting it with a new version)
>>================
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>>As far as your clustre fs goes, I need to see more info.  You mentioned 
>>it's wonderful features to me, but I'd like to see a website to read 
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> We are consideration and prepare for that. And now we are gathering and
> proof our concepts.
> 
> Last quarter we got some initial idea about it, and this quarter we will
> put our first module within that onto our product environment to proof
> its right or not. If we succeed, I will try to open it to get a
> worldwide improvement :)

What company/organization do you work for?

Eric


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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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