> - It should be relatively cheap, (cost less than $6K; lesser - better), > > - It *must* run reliably in 2 node Linux cluster (which I can not say > for FireWire based RAC I've tried) , > > - At least one person should be willing to say magic words: > "Yes, I have/run such a beast at my place and it works just fine". Well, I can't say the magic words, as I've only read about this, but ATA over Ethernet seems interesting. There was an article in Linux Journal recently about it (March or April?) CORAID developed the technology: http://www.coraid.com/ http://www.coraid.com/documents/EDDescription.pdf HTH, Sean -- Sean Hull, Senior Consultant Heavyweight Internet Group Rockefeller Center, Box 5352 New York, NY 10185 http://www.iheavy.com voice: 646.827.9877x23 fax: 646.827.3434 Sean Hull, founder and senior consultant of Heavyweight Internet Group is the author of O'Reilly and Associates "Oracle and Open Source" bridging Open Source software and integration with the world's best performing database, Oracle. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/oracleopen/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l