Jon Aquilina wrote:
does anyone know an altenative to openmosix?? would it be worth reviving
the development of the kernel?
Hello, Jonathan.
I'm still running openMosix (linux-2.4.26-om1) and I did have an attempt
at porting it to the 2.4.32 kernel so I could use SATA disks, but I
couldn't get process migration to work. My deb's for rebuilding the
openMosix kernel under Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS are at:
http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/openmosix
We are currently evaluating Kerrighed as an alternative:
http://www.kerrighed.org
Kerrighed also forms the basis of 'XtreemOS':
http://www.xtreemos.eu/
Although Kerrighed looks very promising, it is also quite fragile in our
hands. If one node crashes, you lose the entire cluster. That said, the
Kerrighed project is extremely well supported and I believe it will be a
good alternative in the near future. We will continue to run openMosix
in the short-term, but I may evaluate MOSIX2:
http://www.mosix.org/
I was, previously, opposed to Mosix on idealogical grounds and loyal to
Moshe Bar but to be fair to Mosix is now free for non-profit use and the
source code is available (but not GPL).
Please let me know if you are seriously considering reviving openMosix!
Tony.
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