> > It might be a bit > > much for home use, but if I had a little bit of a budget I'd use Coraid's > > AoE > > stuff as the basis for my storage. > > Yeah, it's pretty overkill. I've previously worked at a storage > company as a file system guy and now I have at home a nice array with > ZFS on top. It works great, but I want to scale down. I want less > stuff, not more. And I want to use Plan9, not Solaris.
aoe doesn't require solaris, or any other operating system. you can use it directly with a plan 9 file server, as i do. - erik