[OpenAFS] How would AFS work with a NetApp box?

Christopher D. Clausen cclausen@acm.org
Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:28:42 -0500


Jesse W. Asher <jasher1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> What, what about front ending the NetApp with a box that provides the
> AFS functionality?  In other words, the NetApp exports to Server X
> only which serves AFS.  How viable would this approach be?

The above definately works using iSCSI.  Seems to me like a waste of a 
NetApp box, unless you have two "filers" clustered together for 
fail-over.

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