> Yes, it stores medical records (a form or what HIPAA calls protected > health > if no, then build a cheap-o-JBOD with fbsd and nfs3, tunnel nfs over > openvpn and export volumes that way... > >> I went to the Falconstor site. They have about 50 different and subtly >> related products.
You could build a SAN pretty easily using Linux, and have it be rather secure. Of course, how ever you access it from the outside (client program, samba share, etc) may be a source of concern. A 4U case (or larger) filled with hot-plug SCSI320 disks and a middle-end CPU/motherboard/RAID would do the trick. Use AFS to export your file systems, since that'll take care of the nasty authetication problem with NFS, and use Samba for Win32 clients. This is basically what any commiercial SAN solution (that is Linux based) will give you anyway. Plus you can throw in your own solutions like having the RAID array be encrypted by using one of the many cypto file systems for Linux. I haven't looked into it, but I'll bet there are cypto cards you can get that would make Encrypt/Decrypt fuctions on the file system inexpensive CPU wise. 1) Network security: AFS, Samba 2) Physical Security: Crypto FS Sounds like a lot of liablility is gone with those two items. Mark Oh, and P.S. Substitute the word "Linux" for "Freebsd" as you see fit. Both could handle this task. _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
