RE: intermezzo?

2002-09-07 Thread Seva Tonkonoh
It's very encouraging to see replies like that. Thanks a lot! /seva -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry Lambert Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 5:08 AM To: Seva Tonkonoh Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: intermezzo? Seva Tonkonoh

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-07 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Seva Tonkonoh wrote: I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. Just curious if something similar has been done for FreeBSD, or if someone is working on such thing. I am

intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Seva Tonkonoh
Hi, I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. Just curious if something similar has been done for FreeBSD, or if someone is working on such thing. I am actually looking for an MS research project

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Seva Tonkonoh writ es: Hi, I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. What is it ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. What is it ? I think he's talking about this one: What is InterMezzo? InterMezzo is a new distributed file system with a focus on high

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Seva Tonkonoh wrote: I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. It's illegal to distribute a binary FreeBSD distribution with GPL'ed components linked into the kernel because of clause 6 of the GPL

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Ronald G Minnich
intermezzo probably is not impossible on freebsd. I worked on the early versions and most of the hard work is done outside the kernel. It would be nice to see it on freebsd. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Terry Lambert
Ronald G Minnich wrote: intermezzo probably is not impossible on freebsd. I worked on the early versions and most of the hard work is done outside the kernel. It would be nice to see it on freebsd. FWIW, Ron was involved in the MNFS stuff I mentioned earlier. I didn't know that he

Re: intermezzo?

2002-09-06 Thread Ronald G Minnich
was for distributed shared memory and was designed to ensure that mmap'ed blocks from the same file remainted consistent across a set of clients. Intermezzo is kind of like coda done right. The intermezzo name refers to the code that layers between the VFS layer of Linux and ext2/3. OPs from the VFS layer can

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-26 Thread David Wolfskill
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 21:19:46 +0100 From: Nik Clayton n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ Coda (which already has a FreeBSD port) also does this, as well as a few other things. However, Coda

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:47:15PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The possibilities are endless ... A freebsd

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-25 Thread Nik Clayton
On Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 04:47:15PM -0600, Ronald G. Minnich wrote: I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The possibilities are endless ... A freebsd

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: Hi chaps, Not entirely sure which list to post this too, so I figured that -hackers was probably most appropriate. Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ It's main claim to fame

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: Hi chaps, Not entirely sure which list to post this too, so I figured that -hackers was probably most appropriate. Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ It's main claim to fame

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The possibilities are endless ... A freebsd port would be nice. Maybe you could use v9fs as a starting point. ron

InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi chaps, Not entirely sure which list to post this too, so I figured that -hackers was probably most appropriate. Has anyone had the chance to look at InterMezzo, website at http://www.inter-mezzo.org/ It's main claim to fame is that it allows disconnected operation. For example, you

Re: InterMezzo: Project for kernel/FS hackers

1999-07-22 Thread Ronald G. Minnich
I'm working with intermezzo now. It's interesting. Note that the VFS is quite simple, and defines a simple kernel-user channel which maps VFS ops to requests on an IPC channel. The possibilities are endless ... A freebsd port would be nice. Maybe you could use v9fs as a starting point. ron