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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:12623 comp.os.386bsd.misc:963 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU!Sunburn.Stanford.EDU!lm Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Clustering - red hot on UNIX [ was Re: Excuse me? ] Message-ID: <1993Sep12.064041.25621@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> From: lm@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Larry McVoy) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1993 06:40:41 GMT Sender: news@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU References: <jmonroyCD4qtC.22n@netcom.com> <CD7KzA.HGy@jshark.inet-uk.co.uk> <VIXIE.93Sep11174809@gw.home.vix.com> Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University. Lines: 26 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. So, while I find it distasteful to support Mr Monroy, there is some small basis for his comments... -- -- Larry McVoy lm@sun.com Free the Berkeley 4.4!