At 3:38 PM -0800 2004-12-01, Kris Kennaway quoted Jason C. Wells: >> This sounds very close to OpenAFS. I don't know what distinguishes a SAN >> from other types of NAS. OpenAFS does everything you mentioned in the >> above paragraph. OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now. > > I'd be very interested to try using this for package builds, btw. > Currently I have to rsync a lot of data to the remote build clients, > which takes a very long time. It's interesting that you mention this. I've been giving some thought to how I might be able to dive in and start seriously working on building my UltraSPARC cluster (based on the four U10 clones I have already, plus as many U5s as I can throw into the mix), and I was hoping to find a better solution than NFS, and AFS/Coda/OpenAFS was tops of my list of alternatives to consider. In particular, if I can get this thing working reasonably well, I'd like to turn this into a package building cluster for FreeBSD/UltraSPARC, and maybe see if there are some other applications I can put it to during the idle times. I'm still looking for instructions on how the existing FreeBSD package building clusters are put together. That plus various bits-n-pieces I've found (mostly from Brooks) should help me figure out how to try to build my own. -- Brad Knowles, <brad_at_stop.mail-abuse.org> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.Received on Thu Dec 02 2004 - 04:10:30 UTC
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