On 8/16/2013 10:51 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote: > Some years ago I installed a NAS unit from Exanet which consists of 2 > rebadged IBM x3650 head nodes and a couple of Xyratex disk shelves with a > total of 96 TB of raw disk, connected by fibre channel. The operating system > is based on CentOS 4.4, but is modified, and runs a proprietary file system. > It has pretty good performance and I'm happy with it.
I would consider dumping the head nodes, and connecting the FC arrays directly to the host HBA, and running them as fiber JBOD to a dedicated host, which could run whatever sort of mdraid, lvm, file system you want. or something like FreeNAS with ZFS and FreeBSD, then share stuff via SMB, NFS, etc. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
