From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 22:15:22 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74B1516A419 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:15:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (mail.computinginnovations.com [64.81.227.250]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1232213C4A8 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:15:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p28.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.8/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l96MF5IV015393; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 17:15:05 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20071006171409.0252dba8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:14:44 -0500 To: "Don O'Neil" , From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <001801c80862$b10f8260$0800020a@mickey> References: <00a201c8085b$f23b0720$0800020a@mickey> <6.0.0.22.2.20071006161249.025449f8@mail.computinginnovations.com> <001801c80862$b10f8260$0800020a@mickey> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ComputingInnovations-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: RE: Building a SAN using FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:15:22 -0000 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 > >---------- >From: Derek Ragona [mailto:derek@computinginnovations.com] >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 > > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for >their support. >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for >their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.