At 04:48 PM 10/6/2007, Don O'Neil wrote:
Well, that's is a possibility, but seems a bit of a hack to me... The SAN
device would be interfaces to another FreeBSD box so there's no need for
Samba... what I'm looking for is a way to extend 1 file system to an
infinite size by adding additional devices/network boxes, like what is
available from HP and the bigger players, based on a journaled file
system. Multiple disks basically added together like RAID, but in a
software/hardware setup to create one large volume (and single file system).
The use would be for web services... so when a particular volume fills up
I can extend it by adding disks and not have to move home directories to
different file systems, etc...
I think you want to look into ZFS then, available on current.
-Derek
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From: Derek Ragona [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:14 PM
To: Don O'Neil; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Building a SAN using FreeBSD
At 04:00 PM 10/6/2007, Don O'Neil wrote:
Anyone have any resources for building a FreeBSD based SAN device? IE, how
can I create an extendable file system using networked drives in muliple
boxes without paying a billion dollars for someones expensive drive arrays.
TIA!
Well you can load FreeBSD on multiple boxes, I assume using cheap disks,
then run samba on each to share some of the drives.
-Derek
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