>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew N Dodd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthew> On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, David Gilbert wrote: >> While I'm 100% aware of the pitfalls of such a setup, I find myself >> implementing linux in a cluster because it can export 5G-ish of a >> disk on each node to one machine that generates a gigantic >> filesystem. This is done with linux's network-block-device (NBD). >> I'd like to know if someone has generated a similar FreeBSD >> facility. Matthew> You could use NFS and 'mdconfig/vnconfig'. but that would be no different than using the nfs directly. mdconfig won't aggregate several chunks of files ... and last I checked md wasn't entirely happy with nfs (some form of chicken-and-egg problem) Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
