On Mar 27, 2012, at 11:16 PM, objectwerks inc wrote:
> > On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> >> >> I wrote: >>> Alternatively, you might consider an eSATA enclosure instead. >> >> Still yet another option is a NAS. QNAP and ReadyNAS come to mind. Also >> FreeNAS/TrueNAS are possibilities, based on FreeBSD so you'd get ZFS >> including RAIDZ capability, and built-in SMART monitoring, lots of other >> features. At least the FreeNAS/TrueNAS products are using a recent version >> of Netatalk for AFP which supports Time Machine network backups. I have >> tested it in a VM, works nicely, reasonably straightforward. >> > > In my home office I am using Nexentastor with ZFS for this sort of thing. I > installed Netatalk on it as well and all my Time Machine backups for about 5 > or so Macs go to that server as well as on different volumes on the same > machine all my media, files, code repositories, etc. (some are still being > migrated to it) > > Nexentastor is an OpenSolaris fork with ZFS. http://www.nexentastor.org/ . > The community edition is free to use up to something like 17 or 18TB. Yeah, so the question I've been having is how do we get this to be faster? Looked at 10GigE cards? Expensive. Like, really expensive. Fibre channel? Expensive. And 1/2 as fast as 10GigE. And then... I noted that Intel bought QLogic recently. QLogic is an InfiniBand company. And I remember reading that GlusterFS supports Ethernet and InfiniBand. http://davidhunt.ie/wp/?p=232 $50 for a 10Gig InfiniBand adapter. Yes, caveats arrive as soon as you have two computers and need to build a fabric, like FC. But Thunderbolt is PCI-e, so getting InfiniBand might be possible. And then NFS over IPoIB...hmm. Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
