Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:41:07 -0300 From: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xsan (Apple) on FreeBSD Message-ID: <46CC4B03.2050003@freebsdbrasil.com.br> In-Reply-To: <46CC4468.2040707@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> <46CC4468.2040707@freebsd.org>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > 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 Julian Elischer has the presentation on video, if I am not wrong. It was available a while ago, but got offline due to some sort of bandwidth usage issues. Follow the README file at http://people.freebsd.org/~julian/DEVSUMMIT/ to contact mr Elischer. -- Patrick Tracanelli
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