[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm looking to setup a "basement" SAN. As such, I'd like something which: > - Is 100% free software, or Linux-leaning, or at least compatible. > - Can be built in pieces so that I don't have to slip too much past > the Wife's budget at one time. > - Won't tie me down to a single vendor. > > I'm open to suggestions for hardware, sourceforge project pages, experiences, > recommendations, etc.
The first question you have to answer is NAS vs SAN. NAS ~= NFS/Samba. SAN ~= ext3/xfs/reiser/wtf on direct attached storage. You're not going to be able to aford a fibre channel switch. Trust me. Now, if you're wanting to play around with clustered filesystems and the like, recall our visit from Oracle and take a look at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/hunter_rac.html (ignore the Oracle specific parts). That really will be your cheapest way of playing with something SAN-like. The alternative is NAS, as others have mentioned. The little Linksys boxes look quite hackable and will get you what you want for way cheap. Hell, I'm thinking about it. Mike -- "Spare me your space-age technobabble Atilla The Hun!" -- Zapp Brannigan GNUPG Key fingerprint = ACD2 2F2F C151 FB35 B3AF C821 89C4 DF9A 5DDD 95D1 GNUPG Key = http://www.enoch.org/mike/mike.pubkey.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
