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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 12:36 AM, matti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mathew_2000@yahoo.com">mathew_2000@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Is it NFS? or NAS which is problematic?<br>
( SMB/CIFS - i.e. samba, or other file systems.. AFS? )<br>
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SANs in general are a bit more pricey...<br>
<div class="im"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_area_network</a><br>
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</div>I'm guessing you want a block device for a DataBase??<br>
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best<br>
<font color="#888888">matti<br>
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> NFS sucks in so many different ways,<br>
> with so many different solutions.<br>
> What in particular is sucking about it for you?<br>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Chris<br>