On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 15:28 -0700, James A. Peltier wrote: > I deal with research data. Most of which are tens to hundreds of gigabytes in > size, so it's not a solution for me, but we did evaluate that for some > smaller scale uses. > > Our users are used to typing cd /cs/<some lab> and having their files be > available to them. They are used to seeing the same files in the UNIX home > as is in their Windows or Mac shares. This better describes what I mean by > transparent.
And OpenBSD probably isn't the tool you want for holding the data, getting the data out to the different platforms used in research or visualizing the data. However, if another goal is to keep hoodlums away from the file servers and the workstations of the researchers, OpenBSD is an excellent platform. Please note OpenBSD doesn't actually have to get to any of the research data to act in this role. Thanks, Chris Dukes
