iSCSI, twin-tailed disk, cheap-cheap fibre channel, ???

[Fraser Campbell]

Joseph Kubik wrote:

> In my opinion, it's not worth using a cheap SAN. I do tech support and
> the people that try to cut corners end up losing data.

I made a mistake combining the words cheap and SAN, agreed they do not 
belong in the same sentence.  What I am after is a hardware solution to 
share disks at the block device level, a hardware solution that will not 
cost me arms and legs.

I'd like to avoid getting into software solutions if possible (network 
block device for example).

> You might find some of the clustering packages and or distributed file
> systems are more usefull.

More useful?  They are essential, my shared disk (SAN or not) is useless 
without them.
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