On 06/12/99 11:04:25 you wrote:
BTW, did NetApp ever consider putting AFS on the Filers?
Excellent question! I keep asking NetApp every couple of years since about '94 for DFS and the answer, of course diplomatic, is a firm 'no' followed by "there is not enough market for DFS, NT will be our next target".
DFS is a pretty small market. AFS isn't much better, assuming you mean Andrew. If you're talking Apple, now there's a potential market. A high-performance Apple file server would be welcome to a lot of folks. However, I don't know what Apple's plans are for the future; are they moving away from their filesystem format?
Personally I'd like to see the filer have native FTP support. Just stick wuftpd in there and optimize the file transfer. Lots of ftp sites on the Internet would love it. (FTP direct to the filer rather than through a server to a filer should be measurably faster just like doing HTTP direct is.)
Bruce