Dan Stoner wrote: > Alexandru Asofie wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: >> Dual xeon/Dual Opteron >> 4GB memory >> 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare >> 1x 320GB SATA for OS >> The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. >> Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific >> product? >> >> Thank you. > > Unless you need all of the power of the full CentOS distro (with the > configuration overhead that goes with this), you might consider a > dedicated storage server distro such as OpenFiler: > > http://www.openfiler.com/ > > > OpenFiler hosts their web site on CentOS. :) > > > We are only in the testing phase, but we have been using OpenFiler as > an iSCSI target and it is working like a champ. > > > Dan Stoner > Network Administrator > Florida Museum of Natural History > University of Florida > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Yes, OpenFiler is what i had i mind but i am not sure if I should use dedicated storage server distro like OpenFiler or a classic distro with NFS configured afterwards. I think I will stick to Centos 4 because I don´ t know for sure what services will need to run on that machine.