| 1 |
On 15/03/2010 15:49, Kyle Bader wrote: |
| 2 |
> +1 on zfs w/ solaris for storage, just don't go cheap and get desktop disks. |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
I have to admit, I do like the idea of ZFS, though not quite enough to |
| 5 |
justify maintaining Solaris in addition to my other infrastructure. |
| 6 |
|
| 7 |
I was thinking about something rather different entirely. I was |
| 8 |
thinking about bunging disk on my LAN and shifting as much data from |
| 9 |
local storage on my server as possible. This would mean that the server |
| 10 |
could be swapped out with minimum effort. If 'disk on the net' allowed |
| 11 |
mirroring etc. then storage could be expanded and contracted as |
| 12 |
necessary without any downtime... essentially, only my hub would then be |
| 13 |
a single-point-of-failure. I'd love to be able to run a VM on my |
| 14 |
desktop, for example, and use that as a 'stand-in' while I take-down my |
| 15 |
main server for maintenance. For this to work, I'd need to access the |
| 16 |
same file system and be able to switch responsibility for services |
| 17 |
between the two 'servers' quickly. |
| 18 |
|
| 19 |
From ages ago, I remember iSCSI being bandied about. Did that ever go |
| 20 |
anywhere (i.e. is this easy to do from Gentoo?) |
Archives