Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:51:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xsan (Apple) on FreeBSD Message-ID: <46C7B04B.6030703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070818154250.V27632@fledge.watson.org> References: <46B0F505.8090102@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <a969fbd10708011502n5dd8034m7cc0abef3a62c5e6@mail.gmail.com> <20070818125647.O84677@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0708180856471.4749@galileo> <20070818154250.V27632@fledge.watson.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Derek E. Lewis wrote: > >> On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Robert Watson wrote: >> >>> Catching up on an aging thread here -- as far as I know, the XSan >>> parts from Mac OS X are closed source, so while you can access XSan >>> storage using whatever distributed file systems Apple supports (NFS, >>> CIFS?), you can't use FreeBSD to directly access the storage area >>> network. This is probably fine. >>> >>> You'll be interested to know, if you don't already, that both NetApp >>> and Isilon use FreeBSD as the foundation OS for their products. >> >> Isilon uses FreeBSD, yes, but Netapp uses Linux. One of the >> improvements Netapp made to Linux was rewriting the NFS stack to >> support NFSv4 in a decent manner. Those of you that have worked with >> Linux NFS before know that its not something you want to ship on a >> commercial storage product. > > NetApp gave a rather nice presentation at the recent FreeBSD developer > summit in Ottawa on the topic of FreeBSD as the foundation OS for > OnTap/GX, and also made a rather healthy donation to the FreeBSD > Foundation in the last six months. I defer to their expertise on the > point of what the OS in their product is... :-) As I understand it, > NetApp has improved the Linux NFS client significantly, but not for the > purposes of including it in their product. Robert, can you point me to that presentation please? I'd love to read it.. Eric
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?46C7B04B.6030703>