Les Mikesell wrote: >>>From the longtime experience direction, be sure to figure out the >>snapshotting upfront; a good snapshot rotation can save you so much pain >>it's not funny; many commercial NAS (NetApp, SnapServer, EMC, etc) have >>this integrated. When looking at a DIY linux NAS, you may have to roll >>it up. > > > I think there are still problems with LVM2 snapshots. we're hoping to see a major improvement in that situation ( lvm2 / kernel 2.6 / snapshots ) with the CentOS 4.3 release. not too far now :) -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq