Actually, I am on rh436 course now. Why not set up centos51 as iscsi target itself? On 5/6/08, Matt Shields <mattboston at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Ed Morrison <edward.morrison at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I need advice on implementing a storage server. I really do not have the > $ > > to spend for a Dell iSCSI storage divice and I am thinking trunning CentOS > > 5.x with ftp or FreeNAS. Here is what I am looking at and concerned > about. > > > > Situation: > > My current storage needs are approximately 1.5 TB annually. This will > > increase to about 3.5 TB annually over the next 5 years (rough est.). > This > > box will just be a data archive and once it is full it will only be used > > very infrequently if not used at all. Files are small up to 10 MB but > > numerous. > > > > CentOS: > > Upgrading to the newer CentOS flavors. I will not have the ability to > > archive this data to tape and I am concerned about loosing the data when > > upgrading the OS. How best to handle this? > > > > Storage limitation. It is my understanding that there is a 2 TB storage > > limitation with Linux (and windows) in general particularly for stability. > > I see that ReiserFS can go up to 16 TB. Is any one using this? If so, > how > > has it been for you? > > > > > > FreeNAS > > Anyone using FreeNAS? What is your experience? How easy is it to add > new > > drives and keep your data? Upgrading to newer versions? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ed > > I haven't used this and maybe I understand the concept, but what about > RedHat's GFS? From what has been told to me, you take a cluster of > servers and it turns them into a large disk array. Someone correct me > if I'm wrong. > > -- > -matt > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >