Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-17 Thread Steve
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-16 Thread Andrea Conti
1. Are there reliability issues surrounding this technology in Gentoo? My only experience is with a Gentoo-based iSCSI target (ie. server); my clients are windows-based. The system is a low-end Core 2 duo running the latest stable kernel and Iscsi Enterprise Target; I have been running this

Re: [gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-16 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 03/15, Steve wrote: === Any hints or tips? === 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).

[gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Steve
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