--- On Thu, 10/8/09, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In which case no, you don't need Samba, you never did need > Samba and I've no idea why you were using it. I used Samba because it was the only alternative to that NFS bloatware in the Olden Days. Then I graduated into the 21st century and have used FUSE (sshfs) ever since. --- On Thu, 10/8/09, John Robinson <john.robinson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The QNAP NAS you linked to does export filesystems via SMB > using Samba, as well as via AFS, NFS, FTP and HTTP. It can > also export volumes via iSCSI. It almost certainly runs LVM > over md RAID to do all these things. It's looking like iSCSI is the ticket as it can write directly to SCSI buffers using iSER. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI_Extensions_for_RDMA) No hardware needed, just some kernel modules. This, barring some find in FUSE Networked Filesystems. (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=NetworkFileSystems) FUSE is amazing. Just look at these encrypted filesystem options: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fuse/index.php?title=EncryptedFileSystems ... Needless to say, these may be too slow for RAIDing, but it just shows the depth of FUSE. But I can not understand where LVM would come into play with the Qnap? Why? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
