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[Eric Anderson]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 10:39 AM -0800 3/11/05, Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 08:56:29AM -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
>>
>>  > Is anyone working on this, or would someone like to work on it?
>>  > I am not much of a code guru, but I have the resources to test
>>  > this technology under all types of loads, and we are currently
>>  > using a commercial software to handle my needs (polyserve - which
>>  > they have flat out told me 'no' for FreeBSD support), but I would
>>  > much prefer to be on FreeBSD.
>>
>> If you've got money to throw at the problem, you might talk to
>> Isilon and Panasas.
> 
> 
> If you've got money to throw at the problem, you could throw it
> at OpenAFS...  :-)
> 
> http://www.usenix.org/about/openafs/
> 
> However, usenix still haven't gotten back to me about whether I
> could earmark my donations for OpenAFS on *specific* platforms...
> 

I think if I knew it was going to FreeBSD work, I could swing that.  I'm all for helping out a project like that, but in this case, I really need a result I can use in FreeBSD, not linux.  If I needed it in linux, I'd just use GFS in it's current state :)

Thanks for the link..


Eric




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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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