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Keith Dart wrote: |
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> I recommend setting up your server hardware on a decent mini-PC with |
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> server grade disks and installing openfiler. The openfiler uses XFS for |
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> local storage and exports NFS and CIFS (and iSCSI if you want that). |
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> http://www.openfiler.com/ |
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> It is based on rpath linux and uses a different package management |
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> system than you may be used to. But it's relatively easy to configure |
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> and maintain. |
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Both Openfiler and FreeNas look promising from a software perspective. |
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Conversely, I'm drawing a bit of a blank trying to find suitable |
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hardware to run that software on. Given that all I need is iSCSI to |
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SATA and back... for 1 drive at 100Mbps.... everything I can find seems |
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massive overkill. |
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I've been toying with the idea of abandoning being able to fire-up a |
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vmware image to stand in for my server... and shifting to accessing raid |
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storage over USB. It seems a lot less elegant - but it does eliminate |
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the need for hardware to run multiple kernels... When I thought 'iscsi' |
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- I'd hoped that I'd find a cheap external drive that supported it |
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out-of-the-box for a pittance more than a bare drive. Was I was being |
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hugely overly optimistic? |
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