Xsan (Apple) on FreeBSD

[Robert Watson]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Eric Anderson wrote:

>>> 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..
>
> Does anyone have a pointer to the presentation by NetApp from the Dev 
> summit?

I don't believe the slides are online -- you could try dropping e-mail to 
Peter Frehan, a FreeBSD developer working at NetApp, to ask about them.  You 
can find many of the slide sets from the developer summit online on the wiki 
page for the summit:

   http://wiki.freebsd.org/200705DevSummit

The Isilon slide includes a nice shopping list of features they'd like to give 
back :-).  I believe they are looking for willing collaborators to help make 
that happen.

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge