Hello Alex Yes, you can In fact, Sun has a product that does just that. It was called Midnight Special now it's something like Infinite Archiving System (or something like that, just search for the Sun Reference Architectures for it).
A SAM-QFS File system is seen as an POSIX FS so, no "certification" of applications is needed, it's just a disk where you read and write. In that way, writting to a SAM-QFS File system is nothing special, just do it. Now, reading, it may give you some minor headaches. If you have a File that's already archived into tape and have a client trying to access it from NFS, NFS v3 has the concept of archived file. Therefore, the exit code of the read operation will not be 0. If your applications (or users) aren't aware that the files can be archived, you may see "unable to access file" errors. Talk with your users about this or configure your NFS server to give return codes like if it was an NFS v2 server. CIFS, on the other hand it's too dumb to know that files may be archived so, you shouldn't have much problems there. I may be confusing people but, weren't you the one thinking about using this type of solutions for CAD files? If that's the case, those files are usually very big and the loading time on the application end up being big(ish) due to the processing that your CAD tool has to do. I would configure SAM to always keep on Disk the first few MB of the file. That way, users will not even notice any particular delay in the file loading, even if the file's already on tape. -- JaimeC Wilkinson, Alex wrote: > Hi all, > > I have read that that you cannot share out SAM-QFS filesystems > via NFS and CIFS because NFS/CIFS are managed by SMF and SAM-QFS is not. > > Is this truly the case ? > > If I cannot share out SAM-QFS via CIFS and NFS it will be kinda a > show-stopper :( > > -aW > > IMPORTANT: This email remains the property of the Australian Defence > Organisation and is subject to the jurisdiction of section 70 of the CRIMES > ACT 1914. If you have received this email in error, you are requested to > contact the sender and delete the email. > > > _______________________________________________ > sam-qfs-discuss mailing list > sam-qfs-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/sam-qfs-discuss > >
