On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> if you are in *nix and have a central nfs filesystem all nodes can see check
> out rq (ruby queue)

I'm planning on having this system be cross-platform, and it'll be used to 
do things like set up NFS, so I can't depend on NFS's existence, 
unfortunately.

I'm always interested in more cluster software, though, especially if it's 
written in Ruby; a lot of the people working on the same problem I'm 
attacking (building software to maintain the computers for us) come from 
the cluster world, because the problem is generally both exacerbated there 
(because of node count) and easier to solve (because of node consistency).

When I have something that's somewhat more functional, I'd love to hear 
whether you thought it would be something you'd be interested in using on 
your compute clusters.

> i also have a peice of software called 'dirwatch' (on raa too) that makes it
> trivial to setup 'watches' on directories to trigger actions when files are
> created, modified, deleted, etc.  it's under revision as we speak and is
> undergoing major internal overhaul - but the basic funtionality an user
> interface won't change much.

Does dirwatch use FAM, or is it its own distinct implementation?  I am 
planning on using something FAM-like eventually, and I notice there's a 
very early release of a Ruby FAM library, but, well, 0.1.4 does not 
inspire confidence.

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