[SGVLUG] Shared Storage Woes

[Christopher Smith]

As he demonstrated, you can do ATAoE or iSCSI quite cheaply thanks to Linux,
but NAS can in general be problematic for solutions it was not intended to
address and/or is misconfigured for. That's kind of what I was looking to
get some insight on.

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:36 AM, matti <mathew_2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> Is it NFS? or NAS which is problematic?
> ( SMB/CIFS - i.e. samba, or other file systems.. AFS?  )
>
> SANs in general are a bit more pricey...
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network
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> I'm guessing you want a block device for a DataBase??
>
> best
> matti
>
>
> > NFS sucks in so many different ways,
> > with so many different solutions.
> > What in particular is sucking about it for you?
>

-- 
Chris
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