Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:51:55 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: Patrick Tracanelli <eksffa@freebsdbrasil.com.br>, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xsan (Apple) on FreeBSD Message-ID: <46C7B04B.6030703@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070818154250.V27632@fledge.watson.org> References: <46B0F505.8090102@freebsdbrasil.com.br> <a969fbd10708011502n5dd8034m7cc0abef3a62c5e6@mail.gmail.com> <20070818125647.O84677@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.GSO.4.61.0708180856471.4749@galileo> <20070818154250.V27632@fledge.watson.org>
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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.. Erichome | help
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