Benjamin Gufler wrote:
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Hello.
I have a network with two storage servers, one being a dedicated
appliance, the other a pc running Linux. As there are some Windows
clients in the network, some data should be exported via SMB. The
storage appliance isn't capable of that. Hence, I thought of putting
Openfiler on the Linux box, mount the NFS shares from the appliance
there and re-export them via SMB. (Yes, I'm aware of possible locking
issues resulting from such a scenario.)
I didn't find any statement on the Openfiler webpage about such
re-exports being possible or not, hence I'm searching for an answer here.
Unless you're exporting the storage from your storage server as a block
device (iSCSI, nbd, gnbd) you won't be able to use Openfiler for this.
Openfiler is pretty militant about how it expects things to be - and it
controls the entire stack , from raw block device all the way up to
service exports.
Here's an idea: tank your storage servers and replace with Openfiler ;)
Openfiler already does:
NFS
CIFS
FTP
HTTP/Dav
iSCSI
And the following are on the horizon:
Rsync
nbd
gnbd
AFP
AOE
Have I missed anything?
R.
tia,
Benjamin
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