Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 04:51:20 +1100 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: Martes Wigglesworth <martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: In reference to the "Cheap NAS" inquiry.... Message-ID: <20050108175119.GG21075@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <1105206300.683.368.camel@Mobile1.276NET> References: <1105206300.683.368.camel@Mobile1.276NET>
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Martes Wigglesworth (martes.wigglesworth@earthlink.net) [050109 04:44]: > I am researching the viability of constructing a Network Access Server > using FreeBSD, and I came across your post(s) from December 2004. What > were you using the acronyme, "NAS," to describe? You seemed to be > describing a network storage appliance, however, I never got a clear > description of what you were using the term for. The context seemed to > be such that you would have to have been describing the network storage > appliance. Were you talking about a "Network Access Server" or a > "Network Application Server?" If anyone is familiar with the topics of > building Network Access Servers with FreeBSD, I would appreciate any > input. Network Attached Storage - a server doing nothing but serving files. NetApp in particular specialise in very good ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAS - d.
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