Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Flaherty, Patrick wrote:
If I had the time, I'd like to try using Xen with an
OpenSolaris ZFS
iSCSI target as shared storage, but alas I do not have that time.
FWIW, I've had good luck compiling and running the iSCSI target from http://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net/ on CentOS 5. There aren't all the bells and whistles of ZFS, I suppose, but it's pretty simple to set up. Also, given gigabit ethernet and a decent switch, its bonnie++ numbers aren't bad at all.
IET is pretty much storage independant and can use either block device or file for it's back-end. I use it with LVM, while it isn't ZFS it does provide for more storage management then raw disks or sparse files.
-Ross
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