RE: Using a Debian Linux SAN with AS/400

Thanks for the update on this - we mounted NFS fine and were able to
create/edit files no problem. But when trying to create an image
catalogue on it, we had serious problems. It's almost like it is having
trouble using the NFS instead of the library filesystem.

Have you managed to use image catalogues with NFS? I would be very
interested to know!

We figured the best route would be to add some cheaper disks over a SAN
and add a new asp that way and then mount the image catalogues, but this
is our first attempt at this!

The main problem is that one of the files we need to backup on a regular
basis is 800gb we just don't have the room across our 15k disks to be
able to store it before ftping it elsewhere.

We had hoped Debian and open-iscsi could help with this cash/space issue
but are open (desperate) to any ideas!

All the best

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Bipes
Sent: 22 January 2009 16:00
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Using a Debian Linux SAN with AS/400

We have a small 2T SAN, (4 x 500GB Drives that come out as 1.2T after OS
and RAID-5). It runs the Unix style NFS. We have created a share on
the SAN and we Mount an empty directory that exists in the root of our
IFS over the NFS share. Took some tweaking to get the security correct
but it does work well.




Chris Bipes
Director of Information Services
CrossCheck, Inc.


-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Bolland
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:52 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Using a Debian Linux SAN with AS/400

Hi all,



We have a debian box here we intend to use as a cheap ATA SAN and are
wondering what options we have available for using this for DASD on our
ISeries.