Building a SAN using FreeBSD

[Derek Ragona]

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



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>From: Derek Ragona [mailto:derek at computinginnovations.com]
>Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 2:14 PM
>To: Don O'Neil; freebsd-questions at 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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