can anybody say SAN? SAN: Acronym: Storage Area Network
This looks like it is just a SAN, and a little software to show when the same data is written twice and reference the first instance instead of writing it again... I suspect it could use any filesystem on the drives you wanted... Sam Bingner PACAF CSS/SCHE -----Original Message----- From: Russell Coker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 11:06 AM To: ReiserFS Subject: [reiserfs-list] back up to disk Here's an interesting article I just read. It's just a device with a bunch of ATA drives inside, up to 2T of storage. Probably anyone here could produce something based on ReiserFS to compete with it... Storage start-up Avamar Technologies is launching an appliance this week that it claims backs up network data more quickly and less expensively than tape. http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/1014avamar.html?net -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page