Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:08:33 +0200 From: Zeus V Panchenko <zeus@ibs.dn.ua> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what is the best way to use free space on several boxes? Message-ID: <20101213130833.GF80898@relay.ibs.dn.ua> In-Reply-To: <idqrpt$fkj$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20101209141412.GA62013@relay.ibs.dn.ua> <idqrpt$fkj$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras (ivoras@freebsd.org) [10.12.09 17:15] wrote: > > From one side, you can simply create large files within the existing > file systems (e.g. a 300 GB file on each) to serve as virtual disks, > export them with iSCSI, import them on another box and create a ZFS > raidz volume out of those drives - you get a small amount of fault > tolerance here. The bad sides are: you need to have a large "fixed > space" file on each of the machines (you can theoretically create sparse > files but the downsides are even worse), only one box can see the > consolidated space (the ZFS volume), what if i set cluster of FreeNAS-es and export to it the files as ZFS space? -- Zeus V. Panchenko GMT+2 (EET)
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