On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > IMO NBD is less of a hack than you think it is. It is one of the > necessary components for creating a single system image from a cluster > of commodity hardware and this is something Linux developers are working > earnestly on. They're targeting a poor man's NUMA.
Sorry, it still sounds dumb. They should really look at Sprite. (And anyone thats doing clustering and not looking at VMS deserves what they get.) On a real cluster running a single image all all the drives would just show up. There wouldn't be any hacking going on. Stuff like this kind of requires 64 bit machines to be at all useful. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | For Great Justice! | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
