[XCSSA] Tips for DIY NAS?

X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio xcssa at xcssa.org
Wed Mar 11 17:57:51 CDT 2009


X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009, X-otic Computer Systems of San Antonio wrote:
> [...]
>> I'm saying that they didn't do it very efficiently, and that it can be
>> done better. NAS doesn't require a whole lot of work (at least AoE
>> doesn't). even with software raid.
> 
> AoE != NAS, but more a form of SAN.
> 
> NAS is a Network offered filesystem service (like NFS, SAMBA/CIFS, etc)
> SAN is a Network media offered block-level service (like iSCSI, AoE, FC, etc)
> 
> OpenFiler does BOTH.. plus LVM, RAID etc...

Well, maybe I'll do that once I get my box all set up :P

You'll have to nag at me a bit so I don't forget about it.

-- 
David Kowis

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