On Aug 8, 2013, at 2:45 PM, "Ted Byers" <r.ted.by...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I obtained a NAS, with a view toward running MySQL on a sever running > MS Small Business Server 2003 (yes, I know, it is old, but I don't > have authority to upgrade it or wipe it and install Linux on it). > Anyway, the latest version of MySQL will not run on that machine. > Therefore, I intend to run MySQL on the latest Suse (12.3) on a much > newer server that I have almost fixed (this machine will have a 256 GB > SSD). So, unless I can mount the NAS in such a way that MySQL on Suse > can find it, the 4 TB NAS goes to waste (even though all machines on > my LAN can see it and browse to it, which is fine if I only want to > use Windows Explorer, or it's Linux equivalents, to copy files to it - > but even on Windows, MySQL doesn't seem to see it unless I have mapped > a specific MAS folder to a local drive letter, so I assume something > similar is true on Linux). Hence my question. > > NB: I am a programmer, not a system administrator, so I am at a loss > as to how to do this. > NB: I did a Google search, which resulted in a very poor signal to > noise ratio, but ended up confused by the different instructions given > for the different distributions. And, worse, a lot of the pages I > found were as old as that ancient SBS machine I can't use for this > purpose. Obviously, things have changes a lot since then. > > So, then, how do I do this on the latest Suse releases (12.x)? The two ways that come to my mind are: 1) if the nas has iscsi support, config it on the nas and then config iscsi initiator on suse. 2) mount -t /dev/<devid> /mnt Btw, not sure how you think this is ssl mailing list material.....
