From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5d34-0003wa-Mq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:20:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0549EE0452; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.49]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3937E0452 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:19:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vM.7.08.04.00 201-2186-134-20080326) with ESMTP id <20081127091929.HDHW1691.mtaout03-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com> for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:19:29 +0000 Received: from sol.anferny.me.uk ([82.3.168.228]) by aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (InterMail vG.2.02.00.01 201-2161-120-102-20060912) with ESMTP id <20081127091928.HLYO22934.aamtaout04-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@sol.anferny.me.uk> for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:19:28 +0000 Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by sol.anferny.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 936753ABE22 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:18:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at anferny.me.uk Received: from sol.anferny.me.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (anferny.me.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 3ETQcvDnbzTw for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:18:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [192.168.16.33] (howarthairtech-2.dsl1.easynet.co.uk [217.204.234.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sol.anferny.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 773353472 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:18:33 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <492E65DA.2030801@anferny.me.uk> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:18:18 +0000 From: Anthony Metcalf User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Windows/20081105) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <200811252335.28779.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <6589BF65-24AA-4247-BE65-D0CFC999B7A3@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <200811262103.16355.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200811262103.16355.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000402040304000904090507" X-Cloudmark-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=8yGRigjwR4rl3wipFGcA:9 a=h4jcTtUY08Oe6x1Q9m3a_CwkqPsA:4 a=v47ZLdibA2YA:10 a=762SOAF2jo9lwT4zdaUA:9 a=yL-SxcAMQKRc99d05ecA:7 a=VlzRO2Zz9R7bU_V5fK1440N5T-gA:4 a=jYqUYvUE3HMA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=AfD3MYMu9mQA:10 X-Archives-Salt: 1f2b1710-edf5-445d-8813-49020d880159 X-Archives-Hash: 0d91cf664abda28e21758e8c57ee77cc This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000402040304000904090507 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote: > =20 >> Sounds like you want ZFS. >> On Solaris. >> On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS. >> =20 > > No can do :-) > > But I didn't give you the full story. Those 5TB are stored in a column-= based=20 > database on a raw device.=20 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..... =46rom tutorials I've seen, the creation of the ZFS pool, and iSCSI expor= t is like 4 commands in total.... A --------------000402040304000904090507 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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-ba=
sed=20
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
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