On 3/15/06, Abd Al-fattah Abu Dhair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello guys > i want to build a network storage area for our company system, i brought a > Serial ATA RAID 4-bay hot-swappable drive and i want to install liunx on > it..but this something i have never done before.all the workstations here is > windows so i think that the file system must be NTFS but i want to install > linux to control the drive..so any ideas can be useful to me :) > thanks >
1) its called NAS (network attached storage) 2) you need to decide on how you want to provide this storage, block access or application level. Block access is used with SANs (Storage Area Networks) in which a client sends requesting for certain 'blocks' using SCSI or ATA commands. Search for iSCSI. Application level uses NFS or SMB usually to export the 'storage' which is more adequate for your case. 3) I don't have experience with NAS's or SAN's so talk my words with a handful of salt. -- --------------------------- Netiquette -> http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html Netiquette Nazi -> http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/netiquettenazi.htm --------------------------- _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://mail.jolug.org/mailman/listinfo/general_jolug.org
