On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:29:10PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > --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. I'd be very interested to try using this for package builds, btw. Currently I have to rsync a lot of data to the remote build clients, which takes a very long time. Kris
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