2014-02-18 16:39 AEST by Arthur Barrett - A QNAP SAN/NAS is a network storage device.  The underlying operating system is Linux, and as of 
version 4.x they now support 'apps'.  

eg: PostgreSQL is an 'app', also Asterisk (the PBX) is an 'app'.  In that sense CVSNT Server could easily be 
an 'app' for a QNAP SAN (at least we know the disk is local!).

More info here:
http://www.qnap.com/en/index.php?sn=859 

and 'QPKG Development Guidelines':
http://wiki.qnap.com/wiki/QPKG_Development_Guidelines


DropBox have an interesting 'app' - it's a client - it synchronises 'automatically' to your dropbox account.  
This implies several possibilities for CVS Suite:
- a unison client to backup the cvsnt server or provide replication?
- a cvs suite client to create an automatically synchronised workspace/sandbox
- a samba vfs module loaded on the the SAN to automatically commit/update to a (local) cvs server

It appears as though some QNAP devices use ARM cpu's and others use Intel CPU's requiring potential to 
support two different builds…


Note: There is already a 'Git' App and it supports both ARM and Intel.