On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 23:37:10 Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:25 AM, andreil1 <andreil1@starlett.lv> wrote:
Hi!
Anyone can suggest how to build SAN solution on Linux? Clients will be both Mac and Windows.
Thanks in advance for any suggestion(s).
Andre,
If you are talking about Linux as a SAN client, then its done all over the place.
If you are talking about Linux as a SAN storage server, then I have no personal knowledge
I know you can setup a iSCSI server based on Linux, but that is a far cry from having all the management tools one expects out of a SAN storage system.
There are opensource NAS solutions. FreeNAS is one. Don't recall if it is Linux, BSD, etc. A NAS exports NFS / CIFS as opposed to raw block devices. [...]
FreeNAS is BSD (meaning it should be rock solid). There is an installatble LiveCD disk .iso image that is only around 60MB from memory (so it is pretty light on resources too). HTH. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au ===================================================