Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote: > >> Sounds like you want ZFS. >> On Solaris. >> On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS. >> > > No can do :-) > > But I didn't give you the full story. Those 5TB are stored in a column-based > database on a raw device. Replace the last line with "On a little dedicated box which exports space over iSCSI"? Windows will see that as a raw device, using the very nice iscsi initiator they provide..... From tutorials I've seen, the creation of the ZFS pool, and iSCSI export is like 4 commands in total.... A