--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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