[Ocfs2-users] hardware needed for OCFS

[David Coulson]

Typically I find folks use 'NAS" to refer to filesystem level sharing 
(NFS, Samba), and SAN for block level (FC, iSCSI).

There are plenty of iSCSI HBAs (I've only used the ones from qlogic), 
however they don't 'simulate' anything - They're just a SCSI adapter 
with an iSCSI backend.

Luis Freitas wrote:
>   If your NAS can do iSCSI you could use it to provide a shared block device.
>
>   The performance wont be as good as a SAN as the data has to go through the kernel TCP/IP stack, it can be comparable if you have a iSCSI IP accelerator board that simulates a hba.
>
> Regards,
> Luis
>
>
> --- On Fri, 12/19/08, David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: David Coulson <david at davidcoulson.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-users] hardware needed for OCFS
>> To: "Pete Kay" <petedao at gmail.com>
>> Cc: ocfs2-users at oss.oracle.com
>> Date: Friday, December 19, 2008, 9:57 AM
>> OCFS2 requires a block device (local disk, direct attached,
>> SAN), so 
>> it's not going to work with a NAS (Samba, NFS, etc)
>> mount. You can, of 
>> course, share a OCFS2 filesystem using Samba or NFS.
>>
>> Pete Kay wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does OCFS require NAS hardware to run or does normal
>>>       
>> PC hard disk work?
>>     
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pete
>>>
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