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Creating An NFS-Like Standalone Storage Server With GlusterFS 3.2.x On Ubuntu 11.10 This tutorial shows how to set up a standalone storage server on Ubuntu 11.10. Instead of NFS, I will use GlusterFS here. The client system will be able to access the storage as if it was a local filesystem. GlusterFS is a clustered file-system capable of scaling to several peta-bytes. It aggregates various storage bricks over Infiniband RDMA or TCP/IP interconnect into one large parallel network file system. Storage bricks can be made of any commodity hardware such as x86_64 servers with SATA-II RAID and Infiniband HBA.

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Generally ATA-Over-Ethernet (AoE) outperforms NFS by roughly a factor of 10, due to its lighter-weight (UDP-level) protocol. It's also more secure (inaccessible from outside your LAN), since UDP packets don't route the way TCP-level packets do...

See  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATA_over_Ethernet and the Ubuntu AoE-HOWTO at https://www.howtoforge.com/using-ata-over-ethernet-aoe-on-ubuntu-10.04-initiator-and-target