On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 09:49, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> NAS offers safe concurent access (generally, there might be some NAS devices
> outthere that do not). NAS device will manage file system internally, and
> export it over NFS or SMB protocols to the clients. It's going to be slower
> and less efficient than SAN device though (because of the upper protocol
> overhead), and the set of features offered by file system might not be what
> would be available if file system was managed by client's operating system
> itself.
Or, in the case of a smart NAS and a dumb client you might have
better features like frozen snapshots and remote mirroring - and
without worrying about client software issues corrupting the
filesystem.
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Les Mikesell
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