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Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months
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I find X windows to be a bit too compute intensive. Maybe something like 
apple's interface would be a good alternative [for those who don't need 
X-windows' powerful graphic features].

regards
-kamal

Scott Long wrote:

> Jason C. Wells wrote:
>
>> --On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long 
>> <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 5.  Clustered FS support.  SANs are all the rage these days, and
>>> clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many
>>> storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very
>>> powerful.  RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source
>>> code, so exploring this would be very interesting.
>>
>>
>>
>> This sounds very close to OpenAFS.  I don't know what distinguishes a 
>> SAN from other types of NAS.  OpenAFS does everything you mentioned 
>> in the above paragraph.  OpenAFS _almost_ works on FreeBSD right now.
>>
>> Later,
>> Jason C. Wells
>
>
> Well, AFS requires an intelligent node in front of each disk.  True SAN
> clustering means that you have a web of disks directly connected to the
> SAN (iSCSI, FibreChannel, etc), and two or more servers on the SAN that
> see those disks as a single filesystem (actually a bit more complicated
> than this, but you get the point).  If one server goes down, no access
> to data is lost since the disks can be reached from any other server on
> the SAN that is participating in the clustered FS.
>
> Scott
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