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 1NroEX-0003SI-MO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:04:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C7E3E0AF0; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hotchilli.net (mta3.th.hotchilli.net [62.89.140.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36ECAE0AF0 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-243-200-80.adsl.hotchilli.net ([87.243.200.80] helo=[10.8.0.6]) by smtp.hotchilli.net with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NroED-0000NA-98 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03:45 +0000 Message-ID: <4BA08CDF.1080201@shic.co.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 08:03:43 +0000 From: Steve User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090817) 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] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo... References: <4B9E343A.4040908@shic.co.uk> <20100316215751.5f385f2d@dartworks.biz> In-Reply-To: <20100316215751.5f385f2d@dartworks.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 19d598d6-d88a-4c97-95d2-51a28c0b4da1 X-Archives-Hash: 0615f6551a1fb389fc04128b30c0a3ca 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?