Sebastien Bertrand
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Hello Pierre,
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Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc
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I said BRU tape tools, but I meant Tolis Tape Tools.
Sebastien
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Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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Presstore is indeed a great and affordable piece of software. However, it doesn’t do tar.
Sebastien
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OSX does not include drivers for tapes, which means you can’t use the bundled tar or cpio commands. You need a tool that includes its own drivers.
The cheapest option for tar on OSX is probably BRU tape tools.
Cheers,
Sebastien
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There is already on the market some PCIe switches (like Accusys exasan) that are usable in a SAN infrastructure. As far as I know, those never really took off on the market so far, but they allow you to build a high speed SAN without fibre channel. You save a little bit on the fibre channel adapters and switches, but you still need all the components needed in a shared SAN (metadata servers, shared filesystem)
It would not be surprised to see the PCIe switches manufacturers coming up with a thunderbold switch using similar technologies, but it doesn’t mean the market will be there to back it. It will probably take a long time before those switches give you the flexibility and reliability of fibre channel switches.
If you want to build a SAN in August 2011, go fibre channel. And if your bandwidth requirements to your storage are so high, just use 2 8Gb fibre channel links from each hosts. You will need a lot of spindles to fill those links though.
BTW, Brocade just launched their 16Gb/s fibre channel switches, and the Qlogic ones are already announced.
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
Toronto, Canada
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The iSCSI target on the linux side has nothing to do with configuring LVM or creating volume groups (although you might want to use that to prepare your storage first, creating a LV will not make it a iSCSI target).
A typical test setup would be:
Install the system on one drive
Add a second hard drive (or raid array, etc)
Configure iet to make that second drive a target.
Start the iet serviceI suggest you visit https://iscsitarget.sourceforge.net and have a look at the wiki
Cheers,
Sebastien Bertrand
Ordigraphe Inc.
https://www.ordigraphe.com