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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12627 comp.os.386bsd.misc:980 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!yale.edu!cmcl2!panix!not-for-mail From: tls@panix.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Clustering - red hot on UNIX [ was Re: Excuse me? ] Date: 13 Sep 1993 00:17:32 -0400 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and Unix, NYC Lines: 29 Message-ID: <270s8s$lvm@panix.com> References: <jmonroyCD4qtC.22n@netcom.com> <CD7KzA.HGy@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> <VIXIE.93Sep11174809@gw.home.vix.com> <1993Sep12.064041.25621@csd-newshost.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com In article <1993Sep12.064041.25621@csd-newshost.stanford.edu>, Larry McVoy <lm@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU> wrote: >In article <VIXIE.93Sep11174809@gw.home.vix.com> vixie@gw.home.vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes: >>I'd like to offer an observation on the Jesus Monroy phenomena visible here. >[Lotso good stuff deleted] > > >Having followed Paul's career for years, and have respect for his words, I >find it difficult to add my two cents, but... > >I think perhaps the clustering stuff is coming from me by way of Bill. Bill >work for me for a while on SunBox, a clustered NFS server being announced >next week. We had many discussions about how the clustering efforts should >move forward and found (surprise) much common agreement. I was planning >on following through on clustering using Solaris, but poor performance and >general disgust has caused me to focus on the BSD source base. > >I wouldn't be surprised to find that there is some truth in the idea that >"clustering is coming". I certainly find it useful, I used an 8 node >SS2 cluster to do 3.5 minute sunos 4.1.3 kernel builds; down from about 40 >minutes. I like it, I think it is useful, I want to add clustering support >to NetBSD. Wouldn't you just end up with Sprite, but with a less efficient remote file system and no LFS? -- Thor Lancelot Simon tls@panix.COM When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned...