Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 17:14:44 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: "Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Building a SAN using FreeBSD Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20071006171409.0252dba8@mail.computinginnovations.com> 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>
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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
>
>
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