On 08/18 08:15 , Mike Hicks wrote:
> RAIDZONE makes some specialized
> Linux boxes that do that [http://www.raidzone.com/] though I'm sure
> there's other stuff out there too.

we had a Raidzone box here for a while; turned out to be crap. 
it's just an x86 dual-xeon with a proprietary disk array attached to it.
Runs RedHat 7.1 + patches. (new kernel, etc.)

their NFS implementation was crap; we had no end of trouble with it
spontaneously failing to respond, throwing errors, etc.

we sent their $10,000 box back; built one from spare parts that works
perfectly so far, with eminently fewer problems. (almost none, in fact).

Raidzone boxen are for companies that don't have a linux admin on hand. If
you know enough to set up your own NFS server (and perhaps LVM); you're
about on a par with their work.

-- 
Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com

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