mediahound
Dabbler
- Joined
- Mar 11, 2013
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My big posts got too big so i'm changing to single small questions now since they are critical questions changing my strategy of what to build/how to communicate what I want.
Is there any way to do the equivalent of BIG/SPAN/JBOD type drive concatenation, but over a network, two smaller NAS boxes presented as one larger drive to samba/NFS/etc?
If I had 2 physically separate motherboards and NAS boxes, lets say they have 4tb each (each with dual 2tb drives), and they are on the same network... is there any way I could make them act as a single 8TB drive?
For instance, could a single Zpool somehow access a 2nd NAS box to include it's drives? I'm aware performance would be an issue at 1gig ethernet speeds but i'm just curious whats possible since when 10gig ethernet becomes supported and less expensive it may be doable.
Another possibility would there be some kind of software that would let me mount multiple NAS boxes to treat them as a single concatenated drives from within freenas or linux?
Is there any way to do the equivalent of BIG/SPAN/JBOD type drive concatenation, but over a network, two smaller NAS boxes presented as one larger drive to samba/NFS/etc?
If I had 2 physically separate motherboards and NAS boxes, lets say they have 4tb each (each with dual 2tb drives), and they are on the same network... is there any way I could make them act as a single 8TB drive?
For instance, could a single Zpool somehow access a 2nd NAS box to include it's drives? I'm aware performance would be an issue at 1gig ethernet speeds but i'm just curious whats possible since when 10gig ethernet becomes supported and less expensive it may be doable.
Another possibility would there be some kind of software that would let me mount multiple NAS boxes to treat them as a single concatenated drives from within freenas or linux?