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Has anyone succesfully setup, and used CentOS as an iSCSI server? I'm trying to setup a server with 4x500GB HDD's, setup in RAID 10 to act as an iSCSI server for a virtualization project, but I can't find a decent howto on how to setup an iSCSI server using CentOS. I would like to setup something like Openfiler, but we also need todo some other stuff that OpenFiler doesn't support, so I woul...

...about other OpenSolaris-based OSs, like NexentaStor? (My searching found that OpenSolaris recommended at least 1 GB, while NexentaStor said 2 GB was okay, 4 GB was better. I''d be interested in hearing your input, though.) If it matters, I''m currently planning on RAID-Z2 with 4x500GB consumer-grade SATA drives. (I know that''s not a very efficient configuration, but I''d really like the redundancy of RAID-Z2 and I just don''t need more than 1 TB of available storage right now, or for the next several years.) This is on an AMD64 system, and the OS i...

...MAND 32719 root 20 0 785m 768m 792 R 98 20.0 2443:18 resize2fs $ sudo resize2fs /dev/mapper/data-data 3000G resize2fs 1.41.11 (14-Mar-2010) Resizing the filesystem on /dev/mapper/data-data to 786432000 (4k) blocks. Time passes. :D It's an LVM comprising 4x2TB disks in RAID10 and 4x500GB in RAID10. $ cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md1 : active raid10 sdi1[0] sdg1[1] sdf1[3] sdh1[2] 976767872 blocks 64K chunks 2 near-copies [4/4] [UUUU] md0 : active raid10 sda1[2] sdc1[3] sdb1[1] sdd1[0] 3907023872...

...Cost: 4x750 costs NOK6000 = US$1100 > > Option 2 - Buy 1x500 + 3x750 > 4x250 RaidZ - 750/250 > 3x500 Raid1 - 1000/500 > 3x750 RaidZ - 1500/750 > Equals 3250/1500 > 1x750 costs NOK 1500 = US$ 270 > 3x500 costs NOK 3000 = US$ 550 > Total US$ 820 > > Option 3 - Buying 4x500GB disks: > 4x250 RaidZ - 750/250 > 6x500 Raid1 - 2500/500 > Equals: 3250/750 > Cost: 4x500 costs NOK4000 = US$ 720 > > Option 2 is not winning in either cost or space, so thats out. > Option 1 gives me 250GB more space but costs me NOK 2000 / US$ 360 more than option 3. For NOK 2...

Sep 21 08:57:54 belle fsck: /dev/ad4s1d: 1 DUP I=190 Sep 21 08:57:54 belle fsck: /dev/ad4s1d: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. Ok, so I ran fsck manually (even with -y), but yet it refuses to clear/fix whatever to the questions posed as fsck runs. What does this all mean? Thanks, -Clint -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner,