Global / Cluster / Shared filesystem for FreeBSD?

[Robert Atkinson]

I'm still lurking and hoping the new GEOM will be used for such a system.





On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 16:23:01 +0100, Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:
> Adam Maloney wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >
> >> Speaking of filesytems :),  I have a real need for a global filesystem
> >> (or
> >
> >
> > "me too"
> >
> > I played with CODA a few months ago but it didn't seem to be solid, and
> > didn't fit my needs.  Everything else I've looked at is Linux-only.
> > Please follow-up to the list, I'd be very interested in seeing what
> > other projects are available.
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>         I don't know if DRBD [1] is a good implementation (Linux only), but it
>         works flawlessly, replication is fast (i got ~35MB/s) and it's quite
>         simple to get it working.
> 
>         ENBD [2] isn't based on the same concept, it "exports" block devices
>         through network via userland application, though it needs a kernel
>         module for client side.
> 
>         I'd like something like DRBD exists for FreeBSD but I'm not aware of
>         such an implementation.
> 
>         [1] http://www.drbd.org/
>         [2] http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
> 
>                                            -- flz
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