My project wish-list for the next 12 months
Jason C. Wells
jcw at highperformance.net
Wed Dec 1 15:29:12 PST 2004
--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long
<scottl at 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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