If your NAS can do iSCSI you could use it to provide a shared block device.
The performance wont be as good as a SAN as the data has to go through the kernel TCP/IP stack, it can be comparable if you have a iSCSI IP accelerator board that simulates a hba. Regards, Luis --- On Fri, 12/19/08, David Coulson <[email protected]> wrote: > From: David Coulson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] hardware needed for OCFS > To: "Pete Kay" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 9:57 AM > OCFS2 requires a block device (local disk, direct attached, > SAN), so > it's not going to work with a NAS (Samba, NFS, etc) > mount. You can, of > course, share a OCFS2 filesystem using Samba or NFS. > > Pete Kay wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does OCFS require NAS hardware to run or does normal > PC hard disk work? > > > > Thanks, > > Pete > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ocfs2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users > _______________________________________________ > Ocfs2-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-users mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-users
