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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
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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

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