Re: Does This Kill The Mac Pro?

[Aindreas Gallagher] "I thought NTFS was death? read, but no OS X write?"

metaSAN, brother. It's quite incredible.

Basically, our macs see a huge wad of hfs+ storage, even though the files that our macs see are stored on physical NTFS media, metaSAN handles the rest . The nice thing is metaSAN (or metaLAN) scales up AND down nicely.

Genreally, as far as SANs go, they are usually pretty strict, or run strict file systems (XSAN runs a proprietary file system, for example).

While metaSAN has some rules, it changes that game big time, and the rules are kinda loose within reason.

They also do some really crazy things with a program called PoolIt that will aggregate a number of disparate drives and present it to all the SAN clients as one mass. And it's dynamic, so you can add and remove drives/volumes. It's pretty bonkers. No, it's really bonkers.