[CentOS] Netapp like snapshots using Centos 5/6 direct attached storage

Look into XFS+LVM.

For XFS, you'll have to yum it via;

yum install kmod-xfs xfs-progs xfs-dump

This is in the centosplus repo.

- aurf

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Scott McKenzie <spuds66 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Hello,
>
> I'm researching the best method of providing about 20 users in a production
> environment the same functionality as they would have on a Netapp NFS share.
> The O/S I will be using is CentOS 5 or 6 (max flex on which one) and the
> hardware is a disk array directly (12 SAS disks 7TB un-configured brand new)
> attached to a HP 580 G 7.
>
> I've done some reading on ZFS on Linux ,fuse-ZFS, BRTFS ,rsnapshot, snapFS.
>
> Any one have some advice or experiences to share?
>
> Thanks,
> spuds
>
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