Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> > wrote: >> On 10/12/10 10:39 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> >>> I hope someone can shed some light on this for me. Has anyone tried, >>> or have experience with, setting up a Linux server to manage a few NAS >>> devices and thus make them all visible to the clients as one large >>> SAN? >>> >>> Basically, I'm thinking it would be a good idea to combine the current >>> NAS's we have into one large system (typically a SAN?) and then let >>> the clients all connect to one server (for authentication, LUN <snip> >>> Does anyone know what I'm talking about? >> >> how do you plan to implement redundancy on this system? there's a >> -huge- single point of failure in the middle of what you're talking >> about. > > True, but then one could setup a HA server for the management server. > And probably some load balancer(s) to cater for high availability. Not *quite* sure I get what you want, but *if* I get it right, you might consider making the NAS into a glusterfs filesystem, and then re-exporting it from your front-end, and that could be h/a. mark