Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 01:23:57AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
> 	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.

I'll second that. every few months I test OpenAFS on FreeBSD and every
few months I think it's only a few months away from working ;-)

In a Kerberos environment, AFS is a beautiful thing.

> 	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.

That would be handy. My U5 isn't all that fast (mostly due to the IDE
crap interface), so building large apps is reasonably annoying. It's one
of the few boxes that I do portupgrades monthly (or less) rather than as
they come out.

-T


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