WinFS sort of addresses the CAS needs of the home user Market. Sun is already working on the Enterprise CAS needs with Honeycomb (5800) programmable storage array. I believe they are moving the code base to ZFS. The database it uses for it's metadata and programmable schemas came out of a project Sun did for the Telecom industry I believe.
Also, The next versions of SAMFS are going to be more extensible and start playing more in the CAS space. So I think we're golden, there are ongoing projects to do this stuff on Sun and on ZFS. :) And actually you can buy and deploy honeycomb today. it's filesystem has a lot of the ZFS characteristics plus it has the CAS stuff. The field of archive is certainly changing into a very interesting place. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
