This one time, at band camp, Christopher Martin wrote: >Hi, > >I'm new to the SLUG list, so I was wondering about protocols of asking >questions on the list. I checked out the FAQ on the SLUG page but >http://www.slug.org.au/mailinglists.html resulted in "Page not found". > >Is the main list about SLUG business only, or should questions be sent >there?
Linux, open sores, and questions of a technical nature are all on topic for the main list. >If here is the right spot, maybe someone can help me... > >I'm tinkering with a few storage setups, and I am having the Google effect >trip me up: too many false positives! > >I have two scenarios I am interested in. > >1) If I build a software RAID on a machine can I present that out a SCSI >port? So, rather than the machine appear as a host on the SCSI bus it >appears as a disk, which is in turn the RAID? If there is, anyone know if >you can do out an FCAL or fabric FC port? I don't know if you can present a Linux block device back out a SCSI controller... the closest thing I know of that you can do this with is i-scsi, i.e. present the block device over the network. I haven't actually done anything with i-scsi though, so can't help you further. >2) Can I use a chunk of disk space as a virtual tape drive using for free? >There are plenty of commercial options around, and I was just hoping there >was an open source alternative. AMANDA ( http://amanda.org ) has support for what it calls vtapes, i.e. using a set of directories in place of physical tape. There's plenty of howtos on the website on setting it up. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
