How about SAN with ARM?
Hi.
I've been tinkering with the Linux NDAS driver. The competition in the
x86 world are Coraid's AOE and Linux' NBD. They are essentially the same
idea, connecting the block device to the lan.
NDAS seems to work fine, on desktops, and on the ARM units I have
tested: pogoplug, sheevaplug and seagate goflex.
But I wonder if there is any future using it with ARM networks. I really
don't see much hits on the code pages, and no mention of such
applications on these ARM lists that I joined.
I am trying now to get the web scripts working that will allow
connecting the storage as a typical NDAS from my sheevaplug, but it
looks like there is no big market now. So I am asking what users here
think of this.
Shall I continue? Do you think the growing power of ARM boards will lead
to simply building in HD and such? Or would the future lead to scale out
type connectivity, using several block devices on LAN as a storage for
lots of ARMs doing background storage and service.
Has anyone done multiple ARM computers connecting to a block device for
central storage (using a Global File System or OCFS2 etc... ) ?
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