Re: [Nolug] Terabyte servers on the cheap...

On Saturday 22 June 2002 11:46 pm, Michael wrote:

> A couple months ago when I actually had a job for a while I was
> seriously thinking of buying and installing a whole case (30 units)
> of 100gig drives in a server for myself. The problem I was running
> into was finding a case able to handle that many drives that didn't
> cost a fortune and had a good enough cooling system. I think I had
> decided that it'd be cheaper/easier to buy a couple cheaper machines
> with about 10 hdd's per machine and tie them together with NFS. My
> only real problem was that I didn't think that Linux's LVM could work
> over NFS. Does anyone know of a way to implement the LVM over a
> network? Not that all 30 drives need to appear as one logical device
> but it'd be nice for some big projects. I figure 3 terabytes of space
> sitting in my living room would be a major geek high and I really
> could/would use that much disk space so it'd be a cool project.
>

You may have issues with the lvm and certain filesystems (xfs or reiser
for example), but NFS or samba should work fine - they operate at a
level above that and shouldn't have any knowledge about lvm at all.

I would always use samba before nfs, nfs is really ugly.

As for cases, look at http://www.calpc.com, they have really nice
stuff, but not cheap. Take a look at the storage cases. The large
server case has 16 5.25" bays and a nice steel door.

-- 
Tim Kelley
tpk at 23rdward dot org
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