Greetings, On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:00 PM, km <[email protected]> wrote: > I am also exploring SAN options because it might have lot of load if it is > NAS based solution. > Now if SAN is block based, do linux have specialised file systems to work > on with SAN ? I donot know much abt the working of SAN.
SAN is generally just a fibre fabric which makes available hard disks as a block device (and tape library as a character device IIRC) Where often the NAS heads (typically storage servers) sit on top the SAN exported LUNs. Now there is a myriad of configuration options. You have not mentioned How many LUNs you want, how many hosts will be accessing the SAN/NAS box, whether there are HA clusters involved? Do you require Multi-host access to same filesystem etc. etc. Storage solution design and support is a very big business amongst the biggies (IBM, HP, DEL, Oracle etc.) You should also consider a tape library for back up. Not to mention remote DR site with equivalent amount of storage. -- Regards, Rajagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
