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Date:      Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:22:13 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        karsten@rohrbach.de
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning 
Message-ID:  <200102092022.f19KMDH00585@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 2001 20:18:49 %2B0100." <20010209201849.B48420@rohrbach.de> 

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> 
> when it comes to ibm, as far as i understand you have to hook up their
> filers to rs/6000(aix) or s/370 or s/390 systems since they are "only"
> fibrechannel or ficon attached raid subsystems, so the client platform
> is responsible for handling all the filesystem stuff.

Hrrm.  The last box I looked at included a pair of RS6000's in the 
cabinet, and they were touting it as a NAS, but I wasn't paying so much 
attention then.

> > Your friend may also want to look at Traakan, who have a novel product in 
> > this space.
> i checked out their website which says "under construction"
> strange...

Definitely; they had some neat stuff up there a week or two ago...

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