[XCSSA] Tips for DIY NAS?

[X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio]

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>> On Monday 09 March 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I tend to be biased towards not doing the embedded solutions since I
>>> often want to do more than those little CPUs can handle. Although,
>>> with a NAS (the idea going round in my head was an ATAoE system) I
>>> wouldn't need very much, just ssh to talk to it, and that's about it.
>> Check out OpenFiler.. It can:
>> * Offer itself out as block devices (SAN/iSCSI/AOE/FCOE)
> I'd looked at openfiler before, but couldn't find anything that
> confirmed AoE. I'll have to give it a shot :)
> 

HOLY MOLY. Openfiler is OMFG slow.

I've got it on a p3 500 with 256 mb of ram (should be enough to do NAS-y
type things.) But it's taking forever for it to manage volumes. I was
handier with a CLI.
things like:


sh -c partprobe -d -s 2>/dev/null | grep sd | cut -f1 -d ":" | cut -f3
-d "/"

Take 99% of the cpu in I/O wait and take forever to run, on the order of
minutes. I guess had I more faster hardware it might not be so bad, but
I was able to share out aoe drives before without problems... And I blew
away my existing install for this :(

So yeah, it's painfully slow to create LVs in openfiler just so I can
start sharing out volumes.

/me tosses openfiler out the window.

</rant>

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David Kowis

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