Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Anthony Metcalf <nevyn@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems
Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:20:34
Message-Id: 492E65DA.2030801@anferny.me.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 26 November 2008 11:16:51 Stroller wrote:
3 >
4 >> Sounds like you want ZFS.
5 >> On Solaris.
6 >> On a little dedicated box which exports space via NFS.
7 >>
8 >
9 > No can do :-)
10 >
11 > But I didn't give you the full story. Those 5TB are stored in a column-based
12 > database on a raw device.
13
14 Replace the last line with "On a little dedicated box which exports
15 space over iSCSI"?
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17 Windows will see that as a raw device, using the very nice iscsi
18 initiator they provide.....
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20 From tutorials I've seen, the creation of the ZFS pool, and iSCSI export
21 is like 4 commands in total....
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23 A