On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:51:32 -0500 Steve Campbell campbell@cnpapers.com wrote:
I don't really want to go the route of Fibre channels and ISCSI, and would prefer to use common hardware (which sort of suggests GNBD).
Also take a look at ATA over Ethernet (aoe), either from coraid.com or roll-your-own with small aoe "server" called vblade.
Much simpler than iSCSI, but works on layer2, so no routing. Performance is about the same as you'd expect from old 1gbit fibrechannel.