[CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

Mon Aug 31 09:28:32 UTC 2009
J.Witvliet at MINDEF.NL <J.Witvliet at MINDEF.NL>

Hi, 

-----Original Message-----
From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On
Behalf Of Robert Heller
Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 12:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [CentOS] using Linux as a NAS / SAN device

At Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:12:27 +0200 CentOS mailing list
<centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking at using Linux as a NAS / SAN device, and would like some 
> input from other's who have done this before?
> 
> How would it compare to commercial SAN devices, Thecus N8800SAS
> (http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=11&pid=177&set_language=e
> nglish)
> or something similar to these?
> 
> I would probably use hardware RAID 10, and could go with either SAS / 
> SATA, and then probably offer iSCSI, Samba. NFS & rsync.
> In terms of servers hardware, well either Tyan / SuperMicro / Intel / 
> Dell would be fine as well. But, my question is rather from a linux 
> point of view, how would Linux compare to dedicated NAS devices, in 
> terms of the OS managing the device?

I think many dedicated NAS devices, are in fact Linux machines, using an
embedded Linux system.

--
Just a word of caution.
I had a simarly question: building one self, or buyding dedicated hw.
Looked through several specs of different boxes, and decided for an
ICY-box, that can hold two sata-disks, raid0/raid1/jbod, has an
GB-ethernet interface and capable of doing NFS. (which is actually an
Linux-box)

However, the box is as slow as a proverbial civil-servant, although the
link is realy set to GB, it just might as well have been 100MB. And even
that its not capable of filling to the max. (60Mb)
Found out (afterwards ;-) on the relevant product mailing lists that
it's the max the box can do.

hans

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