[Discuss] samba devices and RAID

[pw]

noel at natnix.com wrote:
> I don't quite get what you're trying to do, but if you want RAID over a
> network, check these out:
> 
> http://www.drbd.org/
> 
> http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/
> 
> You could theoretically make a RAID out of a couple of loopback devices
> on network drives, but I'd expect the performace would be horrible.  
> 
> --Noel


NBD might work. The idea of the (cheap)NAS 1U boxes was
to have them directly connected by local Gb ethernet.
Then again, I could just connect an (expensive) eSATA RAID box
and do the same thing without ethernet.

My personal preference would be to just do local RAID.

Peter