On 07/30/2014 9:42 am, Dmitri Maziuk wrote:
> On 7/30/2014 7:56 AM, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
> 
>> Could you explain what "NetApp Client" is/will be/could be, please. 
>> What
>> do you mean by "NetApp Client". I'd like to understand this thread, 
>> but
>> I'm not an english native speaker so I miss the main point of this 
>> thread.
> 
> It's not your English, it's NetApp. ;)
> 
> Netapp is a completely closed proprietary system with its own
> everything: from disk firmware to os. It's "appliance-type" filer and
> the os is incompatible with everything including its own major 
> releases.
> 
> Their main selling point is working at the level of disk blocks, which
> makes for very efficient use of storage space, snapshots, replication, 
> etc.
> 
> On second thought, their shiny! deduplicated block-level storage would
> probably not transfer to tape very well anyway, so there wouldn't be
> much advantage to creating a native netapp client.
> 
> Dima
> 

Your probably right about it not transferring to tape very well, though 
making a client run on it might not be that difficult assuming that the 
content on this page 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD> is 
correct and it truly is based on FreeBSD.  Of course having data that 
can be restored after a backup and actually used after that is going to 
be a whole entirely new challenge, as backing up any type of data with 
de-duplication has already proven to be problematic.

-- 
Thanks,
    Dean E. Weimer
    http://www.dweimer.net/

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