[Discuss] samba devices and RAID

[pw]

noel at natnix.com wrote:
> The problem is the protocol stack you have to go through if you build
> RAID on top of loopback files on top of Samba.  Consider a disk write:
> 
> filesystem write -> loopback block device -> raid device <-> samba server
> 
> keep in mind the raid device could do multiple block read/writes to your
> samba server.
> 
> 
> In drbd it would be:
> 
> filesystem write -> drbd device <-> drbd server
> 
> The SMB protocol itself is quite slow.  Hopefully drbd would be more
> efficient, being designed for this kind of network RAID.
> 
> --Noel
> 

Have you done anything with ATA over ethernet?

Peter