On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, David Gates <dgates(a)iocellnetworks.com> wrote:
Hi.
I've been tinkering with the Linux NDAS driver.
The competition for this storage system in the x86 world are Coraid's AOE
and Linux' NBD.
They are essentially the same idea, connecting computers to the block device
on the LAN.
NDAS seems to work fine, on my Fedora desktops, and on the ARM units I have
tested: pogoplug, sheevaplug and seagate goflex.
They are running a BusyBox version though. I have not yet installed fedora
on the plug to test it though.
I am wondering if there is any future using it with ARM networks.
I don't see much talk about using this type of storage applications on this
and some other ARM lists that I joined.
I am working on the web scripts working that allow connecting the storage as
a typical drive from my sheevaplug, but it looks like there is no big market
now. So I am asking what users here think of this.
At first,
AMAHI.org released a Fedora based plug version with Greyhole
storage pooling by default. I was thinking it might be a good idea as a low
cost, high capacity system if the plugs were to pool several of the NetDISKs
together.
Shall I continue my experiments?
Do you think the growing power of ARM boards will lead to simply building in
HD and such?
Can you see this kind of scale out connectivity in the future of ARM
computers, 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 Greyhole?
If it's possible on x86, whether it be client or server, it's possible on ARM.
Peter