Adam Goryachev wrote at about 03:10:23 +1100 on Tuesday, October 28, 2008:
 > Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
 > > What is the alternative if you don't have room on your server and if
 > > you can't "afford" something fancier than a SAN?
 > > For me, using NAS is very economical given the cost of drives and the
 > > existence of cheap embedded Linux NAS devices. Maybe I am missing an
 > > easy better alternative.
 > 
 > Not that I have used it/etc, but I have heard that ATAoE would be an
 > ideal solution for this. It would be interesting to hear about off the
 > shelf NAS solutions which support ATAoE (or can be co-erced to support it).
 > 
 > If you were able to recompile the kernel on your NAS to add NFS support,
 > I imagine you could add ATAoE support.... apparently it is quite simple,
 > I think other people have even posted examples of how easy it is to
 > setup to this list in the past.
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Adam

Interesting. I will look into that.
Though for now I am limited to (recompiling) a hacked version of
kernel 2.6.12.6 since the vanilla kernels do not (yet) support the
board.

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