On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:51:32 -0500 Steve Campbell <campbell at 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. -- Jure Pečar http://jure.pecar.org/