Xsan (Apple) on FreeBSD
Eric Anderson
anderson at freebsd.org
Sat Aug 18 20:17:57 PDT 2007
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..
Eric
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