From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 18 12:26:43 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD1916A418 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A648B13C457 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:26:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AAE649441; Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:58:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:58:14 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Jeff Mohler In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20070818125647.O84677@fledge.watson.org> References: <46B0F505.8090102@freebsdbrasil.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: Patrick Tracanelli , fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xsan (Apple) on FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 12:26:43 -0000 On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Jeff Mohler wrote: > Im yet to hear of a large Xsan install that stayed Xsan once it grew. > > Most, if not all, have gone to netapp or umm..Isilon (spelling) that ive > been close to. Latest large dump of Xsan that I know of was Current TV in > San Francisco, for Isilon. > > Beware the hype of Xsan, its a money pit. > > Then ask em how long it all comes to a halt when a disk fails. 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. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge