"None of those technologies [NFS, iSCSI, FC] scales as cheaply, reliably, goes as big, nor can be managed as easily as stand-alone pods with their own IP address waiting for requests on HTTPS." http://blog.backblaze.com/2009/09/01/petabytes-on-a-budget-how-to-build-cheap-cloud-storage/
Apart from the obvious comment that I swear I used a quote like that to justify 9P more than once, I'm very curious to know how Plan9 would perform on such a box. Erik, do you have any comments? Thanks, Roman.