Re: Building NAS

[Alex Borges <alex@sogrp.com>]

Im not really experienced but I would say im trying to do the same thing 
here. As of now, the globalfs's (http://www.globalfilesystem.org )
site has proved to be agood source of information, and also they have a 
proposal for SAN that you
probably want to look at.

Alex

> 1) What kind of network overhead can i expect to see on the diffrent
> network protocols?
> 2) Currently im heading for Ext3fs as filesystem but ive been looking 
> at XFS which sounds very promising too. If anyone have some experince 
> and can spread some light on it i would be very grateful.
> 3) Where in the systems is it most likely that i will experince
> bottlenecks?
> 4) Just general comments on the system and if anyone have any
> experinces building a NAS. I have looked at VA-linux NAS solutions
> which in overall look alike the system i thought i would build for my
> company allthough i think their systems are way to expensive which is
> also why we are going to build our own ;-)