From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 22 14:41:06 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 2939A16A477 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:41:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br) Received: from capeta.freebsdbrasil.com.br (vrrp.freebsdbrasil.com.br [200.210.70.30]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA38F13C4B7 for ; Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br) Received: (qmail 10779 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2007 11:44:39 -0300 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 10767, pid: 10771, t: 0.6853s scanners: clamav: 0.91.1/m: spam: 3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin: -last, FreeBSD Brasil LTDA rulesets: Yes X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=3.7 Received: from unknown (HELO claire.bh.freebsdbrasil.com.br) (201.78.58.231) by capeta.freebsdbrasil.com.br with SMTP; 22 Aug 2007 11:44:39 -0300 Message-ID: <46CC4B03.2050003@freebsdbrasil.com.br> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:41:07 -0300 From: Patrick Tracanelli Organization: FreeBSD Brasil LTDA User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070612) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Anderson References: <46B0F505.8090102@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <20070818125647.O84677@fledge.watson.org> <20070818154250.V27632@fledge.watson.org> <46C7B04B.6030703@freebsd.org> <46CC4468.2040707@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <46CC4468.2040707@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Watson , 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: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:41:06 -0000 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