From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NrAEV-00085B-Si for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF4E7E076C; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hotchilli.net (mta3.th.hotchilli.net [62.89.140.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96956E076C for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-243-200-80.adsl.hotchilli.net ([87.243.200.80] helo=[10.0.1.253]) by smtp.hotchilli.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NrAE9-0004pO-QO for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:01 +0000 Message-ID: <4B9E343A.4040908@shic.co.uk> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:20:58 +0000 From: Steve User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100227 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.3 ThunderBrowse/3.2.8.1 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: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a1e5c02d-aafe-48f5-9994-c8ad342ff765 X-Archives-Hash: 2d758d42078787eb56e0c38c14853a95 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 is NFS as hopelessly outdated as it seems?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?