Not FreeBSD specific but does anyone know of any open source "nearline" storage solutions?
With nearline I'm specifically thinking of hard drives that turn on and off and smart caching.
ZFS is wonderful and all but I only need so many available terabytes of storage to be available. I archive a lot of the data that simply doesn't need to be immediately available. I image DVD's and data CD and so have lots of ISO images. And I do backups. But these drives simply don't need to be on all the time. I personally think turning on and off secondary file servers to be a bit of a chore. An automated caching system would be nice. And if it has some redundancy then all the better.
With nearline I'm specifically thinking of hard drives that turn on and off and smart caching.
ZFS is wonderful and all but I only need so many available terabytes of storage to be available. I archive a lot of the data that simply doesn't need to be immediately available. I image DVD's and data CD and so have lots of ISO images. And I do backups. But these drives simply don't need to be on all the time. I personally think turning on and off secondary file servers to be a bit of a chore. An automated caching system would be nice. And if it has some redundancy then all the better.