From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 9 12:20:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.dis.org (c228380-a.sfmissn1.sfba.home.com [24.20.90.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA24537B6A2; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:20:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.dis.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.dis.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f19KMDH00585; Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:22:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.dis.org) Message-Id: <200102092022.f19KMDH00585@mass.dis.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: karsten@rohrbach.de Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extremely large (70TB) File system/server planning In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 09 Feb 2001 20:18:49 +0100." <20010209201849.B48420@rohrbach.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:22:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message