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<font size="2">maybe this is not a correct place, but you can try with opensolaris+zfs.
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<br />with zfs, you can create iscsi, nfs and smb shares from cli.
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<br />it's really easy to do.
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From: Rudi Ahlers <Rudi@SoftDux.com>
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To: CentOS mailing list <centos@centos.org>
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Sent: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:08:15 +0200
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Subject: [CentOS] settings up cheap a NAS / SAN server, is it possible?
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<br />> Hi all
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I want to look at setting up a simple / cheap SAN / NAS server using
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normal PIV motherboard, 2GB (or even more) RAM, Core 2 Duo CPU (probably
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a Intel 6700 / 6750 / 6800) & some SATA HDD's (4 or 6x 320GB - 750GB).
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My budget is limited, so I can't afford a pre-built NAS device.
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Can this be done with CentOS? I've been looking FreeNAS (which is built
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on FreeBSD), and it look like a great project, but since the hardware
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support in FreeBSD is limit, I'd rather use Linux for it.
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Has anyone done this? If so, please share a bit in your experiences :)
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Kind Regards
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Rudi Ahlers
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