[rescue] Re: San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 09:20:35PM -0600, Eric Dittman wrote:
> > > With the price of drives constantly dropping, I'm hesitant to
> > > buy an big proprietary storage unit.
> > 
> > Which part of this system are you refering to?  I was under the
> > impression that the whole shibang would talk to a standard machine, and
> > that all the drives were standard.  I guess I might question using
> > proprietary controllers, but then, if you bought 3, why not consolidate
> > the drives and save the extra controllers for spares.
> 
> I was thinking of the controllers.
> 
> > > I'm surprised there's not an open source storage controller
> > > project to turn a Linux or *BSD system into one.
> > 
> > Yeah, that would be kinda cool.  Isn't that kinda what iSCSI does,
> > except over ethernet or fddi rather than over physical scsi cabling?
> 
> I've not kept up on iSCSI.

My understanding is that there is commercial support towards the
projects of adding it to some free OS, but it doesn't sound ready to
roll yet.  Basically, it is another attempt to do SANs over ethernet
instead of normal old NAS to my view.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd