On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 11:46:29AM +0200, Remigiusz Modrzejewski wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2010, at 11:39 , Eugen Leitl wrote: > > Of course you could export a hybrid zfs pool as an iSCSI target, > > but this runs contrary to my philosophy (achieving high peformance > > and availability economically, by using lots of cheap, high-efficiency > > hardware -- the current sweet spot is currently Supermicro/Atom, but > > I'm hoping for ARM). > > You are/will be doing large scale, don't you? Have you looked into Dell Fortuna? Yes; eventually. In small increments, by whatever spare cash chunks happen to be around. Which is why high-power servers and blades are out of question. > It seems that the Via Nano system may be actually better than Atom. But unfortunately I'm not sure, it's hard to argue with 80+ servers in a single easily cooled rack, with full IPMI and starting at 400+ EUR at a functional server. On a larger scale I'd probably just use the naked motherboards (200 EUR sans RAM) in custom trays, and with shared PSUs. In principle you can boot them from USB thumbdrives and/or network. > it's impossible to buy this thing (the 1/6U Dell system) straight from the street. I'm hoping that Supermicro or similar vendors will eventually offer ARM based equivalents of http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H&IPMI=Y -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="leitlhttp://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE