Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:29:10 -0800 From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months Message-ID: <98CE9C0241F1FC59BB8F0547@[192.168.1.16]> In-Reply-To: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org> References: <41AE3F80.1000506@freebsd.org>
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--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> wrote: > 5. Clustered FS support. SANs are all the rage these days, and > clustered filesystems that allow data to be distributed across many > storage enpoints and accessed concurrently through the SAN are very > powerful. RedHat recently bought Sistina and re-opened the GFS source > code, so exploring this would be very interesting. 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. Later, Jason C. Wells
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