Le Thursday 21 April 2011 13:29:23 shawn wilson, vous avez écrit : [...] > now, i am (obviously) considering building a sub-$1k san. what i'm > wondering if if there are any better or cheaper options? it would be > real nice if, instead of spending $900 + (big ass) power supply + > disks, i could buy tons of cheap consumer hardware and do internal > software raid and then some type of network raid and spend that money > on 4 or so servers that had ~4 bays and have (even smaler / cheaper) > redundant servers saying, get those few bits from server 1, then those > few bits from server 2, etc. since this would require fast switching, > i suppose such a think would run mainly on a network layer. > > i understand that these are some of the features of nfs4 / pnfs. > however, i was wondering if there was any way to do this currently > (with semi-stable software)? > > also, are there any *free* / open source low delta replication > solutions yet? lastly, is there any project for doing san stuff with > consumer hardware? (last i checked freenas looked more of a joke to > me)
[...] I'd say you can look at some distributed filesystems. I was looking lately at glusterfs and moosefs. MooseFS is simpler to setup, and despite lake of High Availibillity of the metada server, it will soon be a good choice. In log term, I hope Ceph (already in upstream kernel) will be the real one. Please, report back if you make some tests ! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104212104.37551.gilles.mocel...@free.fr
