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Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?
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On 02.06.12 09:23, David Magda wrote:
> On Jun 2, 2012, at 00:51, Daniel Kalchev wrote:
>
>> On 02.06.2012, at 07:19, Freddie Cash<fjwcash@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Glustre sits above the storage system, replicating data between systems.
>>> So, disks -- ZFS (via Zvols) -- Glustre.
>>>
>> How is this different than ZFS using remote zvols via iSCSI? Can it tolerate down nodes better than ZFS?
> Gluster ~ NFS++.

So Gluster is basically ZFS with NFS frontend? Something readily 
available in FreeBSD. The clients don't even have to learn new file 
sharing protocol.

Daniel