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IEEE1394-based Storage Area Network?
Hank asks: "I work for Hewlett-Packard and just recently installed my first SAN at a customer site. It was much fun, I was blown away by the ease of the storage device management and the allocation of storage space across the systems. Being a professional environment, it was high-available, ran over FibreChannel through switched fabric, and cost upwards of US$250k -- not really affordable for most households. Roughly at the same time I started looking at IEEE 1394 cards for some video-editing, and an idea came up: Would it be possible to build a lowcost SAN based on Firewire cards, hubs and devices? How would storage device mgmt look like (the (de-)allocating of LUNs / slices / partitions)? What about support of multiple OS's on the SAN? How about this: would it be possible to create a Linux-based disk-array with an IEEE1394 interface (Old P200, crammed with disks, software RAID, lots of RAM for caching, Firewire interface, looking/acting like a single disk to the outside world, storage device mgmt via web-frontend)?"
You stupid twat. Do you have the slightest fucking idea what a SAN is? Do you? You built a fucking file server, and from the sound of it a shitty one at that. (Only 30% of wire speed on a 100BASE-T network? Asshole, I can do 100% of wire speed between two fucking Mac laptops.)
I don't ever want to hear you say "I did something similar" again unless you have some tiny, microscopic clue about the subject of conversation.
You are hereby banned from posting to Slashdot for twenty-four hours. It's early autumn in the northern hemisphere and early spring in the southern; there is no habitable point on Earth where the weather is not absolutely beautiful right now. Go outside and exercise something other than your wanking hand for a while.