On 15/03/2010 15:49, Kyle Bader wrote: > +1 on zfs w/ solaris for storage, just don't go cheap and get desktop disks. > I have to admit, I do like the idea of ZFS, though not quite enough to justify maintaining Solaris in addition to my other infrastructure.
I was thinking about something rather different entirely. I was thinking about bunging disk on my LAN and shifting as much data from local storage on my server as possible. This would mean that the server could be swapped out with minimum effort. If 'disk on the net' allowed mirroring etc. then storage could be expanded and contracted as necessary without any downtime... essentially, only my hub would then be a single-point-of-failure. I'd love to be able to run a VM on my desktop, for example, and use that as a 'stand-in' while I take-down my main server for maintenance. For this to work, I'd need to access the same file system and be able to switch responsibility for services between the two 'servers' quickly. >From ages ago, I remember iSCSI being bandied about. Did that ever go anywhere (i.e. is this easy to do from Gentoo?)
