Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:12:56 -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: <46CC4468.2040707@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <46C7B04B.6030703@freebsd.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> <46C7B04B.6030703@freebsd.org>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > 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.. Does anyone have a pointer to the presentation by NetApp from the Dev summit? Eric
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