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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:06:57PM -0500, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> Does anyone know of a relatively inexpensive disk that can be 
> simultenously accessed (at block level) from multiple machines?

How does the filesystem put up with that?  That is the one thing I have
never figured out.

> I want this as a cheap way of simulating a SAN, I have SANs in the 
> office but I want similar capability on the cheap for home.
> 
> Ideally the solution would be a drive pack similar to the external USB 
> drives you can buy these days with room for 2 HDD so that I can do 
> hardware or software RAID.
> 
> If the total solution was < $1K excluding disks I could swing that.

Can't you run iscsi on a simple linux PC?  I thought someone had made an
iscsi host emulator for linux.

Len Sorensen
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