[CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

Robert Heller

heller at deepsoft.com
Fri Aug 28 11:47:31 UTC 2009


At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:53:29 +0200 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an
> > embedded Linux system.
> >
> >>
> >
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> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Yes, many NAS devices does run an embedded Linux, or UNIX OS but they
> normally also run on an ARM / MIPS / etc processor which I can't get
> my hand on. And they normally also have a team of developers / testers
> / etc who spend their whole lives perfecting this particular piece of
> equipment (either software, or hardware)  I don't have that kind of
> resources to my disposal, which is why I want to go the Linux, or
> perhaps even UNIX route.

Even if thay are using ARM / MIPS processors, the code is pretty much
the same code one would run on a i686 or x86_64 processor.  

> 

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