[rescue] SPARCcluster 1?

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 22:06, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 04:26:12PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >> Of course, the ideal would be a home SAN, but I'm not going to be able to 
> >> afford one of those for a long, long time.
> > 
> >why not??  cause you wanna make it outta fiber?  sure, that would be cool, but
> >you can very easily build a SAN out of stuff you have now. sure, NFS is pretty
> >evil, and maybe not the most stable thing around, but at work they have a SAN
> >that is nothing more than a private 100M ethernet segment on a nice fastswitch
> >and a NetApp.  sure, you don't have the NetApp, but any NFS server will do.
> >just the NetApps a little better cause they F******* RULE.  anyway, it's not
> >so unreasonable to use ethernet for a SAN.  just keep that in mind before you
> >are so quick to give up on the idea.
> 
> Hmm.  Well, I'm already having the boot server pull all of it's data off of the
> NFS server (though it does have a local hard drive).  I'm thinking that the 
> router/file server machine shouldn't use NFS at all.  That leaves the 
> javastation of the stuff I currently have.  I'm going back and forth between
> making it a squid cache, or a internal apache server.  I could do both, but it 
> only has 16megs of ram.  Of course, it is going to have to pull everthing, 
> including OS from the NFS server.

Squid is a resource pig.  I don't think I'd try it on a 64MB machine,
let alone one with 16MB.  It'll also chew up disk space like crazy, if
you want decent caching.  

> >although personally i'd use FDDI, but that's just me.
> 
> I've been slowly gathering the pieces together to start using FDDI.  At this 
> point I have 1 SBus FDDI card, unsupported past 2.6.  I'm thinking that
> maybe after the new year, I will try to aquire a quad SS10 or 20 to run 
> Solaris 2.6 on, then use this card.

Does it have support in NetBSD or any other free OS?  
	Greg