The FreeBSD Foundation announced pleasently the new funded FreeBSD HAST project.
The software will be a file system and software independant synchronous replication which operates on the block-level in a cluster environment. It works over TCP/IP and can use any GEOM providers. Pawel Dawidek has been awarded to implent this highly available storage replication system.
The project is partly funded by OMCnet Internet Service GmbH and TransIP BV and will be finished by Feb 2010.
Editors comment: This is great news and a pleasant surprise. Also looking forward to get a port of a finished and feature complete HAMMER file system. ■