[clug] Managing NAS units?

[Michael Still]

Chris Smart wrote:
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> Hi,
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> Wondering if people have advice on the best way to manage a bunch of NAS
> units on a network? I was thinking of using LVM to present them as a
> single device and share from a server.
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> Is this a good idea? Am I stupid? Ok, I'll re-phrase that..

That's pretty horrible isn't it? The intermediary server ends up having 
to receive every packet for a file operation, and then send it out to 
the actual NAS device.

Netapp does this with a crazy symlink tree thing. That's lame though.

Mikal