Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Drunken mumblings [OFFTROPIC] | From | Nat Lanza <> | Date | 02 Jan 1999 11:56:47 -0500 |
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Alain Williams <addw@phcomp.co.uk> writes:
> This already exists -- it is called an NFS[*] server.
Gosh, really? "NFS", you say? I've never heard of it!
Yes, OF COURSE the people discussing this know of the existence of standard networked filesystems. In fact, if you'd bothered to read the start of the thread, you'd have seen that it started with a complaint about current filesystems. The problem, you see, isn't that people don't know of the wondrous technology called "fileservers", it's that they don't necessarily think it's good enough for everything you might want to do.
There are many reasons why you'd want to use something other than a standard PC with a bunch of disks attached to serve files; instead of detailing them, I'll just suggest that you read one of the many papers that have been written on intelligent storage and network-attached disks.
Some references for information on network-attached storage and intelligent disks:
http://www.nsic.org/nasd.html http://www.pdl.cs.cmu.edu/NASD/ http://now.cs.berkeley.edu/Xfs/xfs.html http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Ed_Lee/Petal/petal.html http://www.isi.edu/div7/netstation/
--nat
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