On 3/25/11 11:47 PM, Lord Sporkton wrote:
> I was planning to make my backend storage box with zfs which as i
> understand it support easy expansion to multiple new disks. Then run
> either iSCSI or NFS between the backend storage box and the front end
> BPC box
You might like nexentastor for that
I was planning to make my backend storage box with zfs which as i
understand it support easy expansion to multiple new disks. Then run
either iSCSI or NFS between the backend storage box and the front end
BPC box
On 23 March 2011 21:34, wrote:
> Best to use LVM (over RAID if you like) for future
Best to use LVM (over RAID if you like) for future expansion flexibility.
I happen to use OpenFiler as a NAS host for the same reason - can act
as an iSCSI host as well as all the mainstream filesharing protocols,
relatively easy to set up compared to building your own from a generic
distro.
Note
Lord Sporkton wrote at about 02:56:59 -0700 on Tuesday, March 22, 2011:
> I was hoping to setup a backend storage system for this to allow me to
> use a much larger file system than is typically available locally. I
> was looking at using an NFS share and connecting backuppc to the NFS
> share.
I was hoping to setup a backend storage system for this to allow me to
use a much larger file system than is typically available locally. I
was looking at using an NFS share and connecting backuppc to the NFS
share. As I understand it NFS has no real limit on the filesystem size
other than that of
