Adam Goryachev wrote at about 03:10:23 +1100 on Tuesday, October 28, 2008: > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote: > > What is the alternative if you don't have room on your server and if > > you can't "afford" something fancier than a SAN? > > For me, using NAS is very economical given the cost of drives and the > > existence of cheap embedded Linux NAS devices. Maybe I am missing an > > easy better alternative. > > Not that I have used it/etc, but I have heard that ATAoE would be an > ideal solution for this. It would be interesting to hear about off the > shelf NAS solutions which support ATAoE (or can be co-erced to support it). > > If you were able to recompile the kernel on your NAS to add NFS support, > I imagine you could add ATAoE support.... apparently it is quite simple, > I think other people have even posted examples of how easy it is to > setup to this list in the past. > > Regards, > Adam
Interesting. I will look into that. Though for now I am limited to (recompiling) a hacked version of kernel 2.6.12.6 since the vanilla kernels do not (yet) support the board. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
