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From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au>
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Martes Wigglesworth (martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net) [050109 04:44]:

> I am researching the viability of constructing a Network Access Server
> using FreeBSD, and I came across your post(s) from December 2004.  What
> were you using the acronyme, "NAS," to describe?  You seemed to be
> describing a network storage appliance, however, I never got a clear
> description of what you were using the term for.  The context seemed to
> be such that you would have to have been describing the network storage
> appliance.  Were you talking about a "Network Access Server" or a
> "Network Application Server?"  If anyone is familiar with the topics of
> building Network Access Servers with FreeBSD, I would appreciate any
> input.  


Network Attached Storage - a server doing nothing but serving files. NetApp
in particular specialise in very good ones.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS


- d.