From: Steve <gentoo_sjh@shic.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:20:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9E343A.4040908@shic.co.uk> (raw)
I have recently started looking at server resilience and availability in
the context of a hardware failure or hardware upgrade. I've come to the
conclusion that it would be very desirable if terrabyte-scale data did
not need to be restored from backup. This isn't a commercial server -
so I'm interested in minimum cost approaches.
With this in mind, I'm interested to discover what represents
state-of-the-art from the perspective of the OS and its configuration.
Issues I envisage are:
* With NAS, it would be desirable to have a Linux filesystem rather than
access files over CIFS - this raises further questions about protocol...
is NFS as hopelessly outdated as it seems? Are there any products that
offer NFS access? Are any of them secure?
* With a SAN, questions of filesystem features are diminished - but
questions of access protocol remain. What is best supported by gentoo?
* Do any gentooists have any inexpensive hardware configurations that
work especially well?
Any hints or tips?
next reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 13:20 Steve [this message]
2010-03-15 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo Harry Putnam
2010-03-15 15:49 ` Kyle Bader
2010-03-15 16:26 ` Steve
2010-03-15 18:21 ` Stroller
2010-03-15 19:18 ` Steve
2010-03-15 22:29 ` Andrea Conti
2010-03-16 16:32 ` Steve
2010-03-16 19:57 ` Stroller
2010-03-16 20:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-16 20:13 ` Stroller
2010-03-16 20:44 ` J. Roeleveld
2010-03-16 21:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-17 20:44 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-17 21:00 ` Neil Bothwick
2010-03-18 16:57 ` Florian Philipp
2010-03-16 20:46 ` Steve
2010-03-17 0:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrea Conti
2010-03-17 13:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Iain Buchanan
2010-03-17 4:57 ` [gentoo-user] " Keith Dart
2010-03-17 8:03 ` Steve
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