<s>
metaSAN	B-Application
is	O
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
Storage	O
Area	O
Network	O
(	O
SAN	O
)	O
management	O
software	O
developed	O
and	O
sold	O
by	O
Tiger	O
Technology	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
metaSAN	B-Application
enables	O
one	O
to	O
share	O
one	O
(	O
or	O
more	O
)	O
physical	O
or	O
virtual	O
disk	O
devices	O
with	O
multiple	O
hosts	O
using	O
Fibre	B-Architecture
Channel	I-Architecture
,	O
iSCSI	B-Protocol
,	O
Ethernet	O
,	O
or	O
InfiniBand	B-Architecture
interconnect	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
metaSAN	B-Application
is	O
not	O
a	O
file	B-Application
system	I-Application
but	O
is	O
a	O
distributed	B-Operating_System
lock	I-Operating_System
manager	I-Operating_System
for	O
existing	O
NTFS	B-Application
or	O
HFS+	B-Application
file	B-Application
systems	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
cross-platform	B-Operating_System
setup	O
,	O
metaSAN	B-Application
provided	O
the	O
file-system	B-Application
translation	O
services	O
that	O
allowed	O
Mac	O
,	O
Windows	B-Application
and	O
Linux	B-Application
workstations	O
to	O
transparently	O
access	O
non-native	O
volumes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
computer	O
became	O
the	O
metadata	B-General_Concept
controller	I-General_Concept
(	O
MDC	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
a	O
metaSAN	B-Application
setup	O
,	O
any	O
member	O
of	O
the	O
SAN	O
could	O
act	O
as	O
MDC	O
.	O
</s>
