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Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:29:10 -0800
From: "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>
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--On Wednesday, December 01, 2004 3:02 PM -0700 Scott Long 
<scottl@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.

Later,
Jason C. Wells