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<<On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:29:10 -0800, "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> said:

> 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.

AFS's consistency model is wholly unsuitable for clustering.

-GAWollman