On 10/10/07, pete wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/10/07, Kurt Buff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At my place of work, we're looking at implementing a SAN, most likely > > with iSCSI, some time next year, and likely about 5-10TBytes. > > > > I was wondering if FreeBSD could provide this on COTS hardware, but my > > googling hasn't been successful. > > > > >From my reading of this list over the past couple of years, it seems > > that both parts of the solution - iSCSI support and large disk support > > - are still problematic, but I'd like to hear more informed opinion, > > as the potential cost savings is quite large. > > > > Anyone have recent-ish experience putting something like this together? > > > > IMHO opinion I do not think FreeBSD is there...yet. ZFS is addressing > many of the enterprise filesystem features that would be needed to > implement something on this scale, and there is the iSCSI target from > NetBSD available in the ports tree. > > I think 7-RELEASE is going to be a solid foundation for building > solutions like this - but in the mean time it may be worth considering > OpenSolaris if are considering going the COTS path. > > or - you can take a look at a company like Isilon Systems > (http://www.isilon.com/) which builds very scalable filers based on > FreeBSD. I have beta tested their iSCSI implementation and it does > look good. > > HTH > -pete
Thanks - being a noob at this particular part of IT, I appreciate the feedback. Kurt _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"