The SSI I'm talking about would be defined as "making multiple separate machines appear as one single system with one single process space, a shared root filesystem, and shared virtual IP". Shared memory doesn't seem that important, except for maybe moving a process from one machine to another. Thanks, Brian
________________________________ From: Otto Moerbeek <o...@drijf.net> To: Brian Empson <brian_emp...@yahoo.com> Cc: "misc@openbsd.org" <misc@openbsd.org> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 4:38 PM Subject: Re: SSI On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 01:04:23PM -0700, Brian Empson wrote: > Hello OpenBSD world, > > Has there been/are there plan to include some SSI functionality for BSD? I've looked into Linux for this and the problem stems from the fact that the kernel has to be patched with the code to perform this functionality. The linux kernel, being a separate entity from the rest of the system, makes it difficult to keep an SSI system up to date kernel wise. BSD seems to develop the kernel and utilities as one, lending itself to easier integration of these features, perhaps? I'd be willing to donate money to the project to see functionality like this implemented! Thoughts? Is there anyone I can speak to about funding a sub project for OpenBSD SSI? Or is it not even being considered? > > Thanks, > Brian For starters, what is SSI? As many TLAs go, it can mean multiple things. I won't try to guess what you want. -Otto
