> All of what Richard asked and said, plus, my question of where the file > stored in relation to the application? (Network attached storage?)
Be careful with your terminology. The Attachment technology is pretty much irrelevant. It is the location of the Filesystem which is important. Network Attached Storage means that the "connection" between the local device adapter and the medium uses a "Network Cable" instead of, say, a SCSI/SAS cable, and that block transport uses some kind of network encapsulation (FC, IP, etc). Presentation is as a non-shared block device -- it is indistinguishable from a locally attached device by the Operating System. (In theory any multipoint connection, such as parallel SCSI or GPIB is "Network Attached" -- that would include SAS as well I suppose, though it is only networked up to the demux). Network Filesystems are usually problematic and are an entirely different beast (despite the propensity of the marketroids to call everything connected to a network "Network Attached Storage" thus creating considerable confusion amongst those that do not know the difference).
