From: Steve <gentoo_sjh@shic.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA08CDF.1080201@shic.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100316215751.5f385f2d@dartworks.biz>
Keith Dart wrote:
> I recommend setting up your server hardware on a decent mini-PC with
> server grade disks and installing openfiler. The openfiler uses XFS for
> local storage and exports NFS and CIFS (and iSCSI if you want that).
>
> http://www.openfiler.com/
>
> It is based on rpath linux and uses a different package management
> system than you may be used to. But it's relatively easy to configure
> and maintain.
Both Openfiler and FreeNas look promising from a software perspective.
Conversely, I'm drawing a bit of a blank trying to find suitable
hardware to run that software on. Given that all I need is iSCSI to
SATA and back... for 1 drive at 100Mbps.... everything I can find seems
massive overkill.
I've been toying with the idea of abandoning being able to fire-up a
vmware image to stand in for my server... and shifting to accessing raid
storage over USB. It seems a lot less elegant - but it does eliminate
the need for hardware to run multiple kernels... When I thought 'iscsi'
- I'd hoped that I'd find a cheap external drive that supported it
out-of-the-box for a pittance more than a bare drive. Was I was being
hugely overly optimistic?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-17 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 13:20 [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo Steve
2010-03-15 14:37 ` [gentoo-user] " 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 [this message]
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