On 6/3/05, Paul A. Houle ph18@cornell.edu wrote:
The storage appliance project faces the more serious problem that my home
network (and many others) is heterogenous: i'd really like a global filesystem that works with Linux, MacOS and Windows, never mind a planned Solaris 10/x86 test machine and a stack of 32-bit and 64-bit SPARC machines that I'm going to install whatever OS I can to run on them.
NFS? Samba? ;-)
It's for that reason that iSCSI might wind up in the same dustbin as WAP and the fifth-generation computer...
Ups! Then FAT32? No, seriously, I'd hope for some kind of universal, local filesystem.