I mentioned this in passing recently ; today I feellike elaborating on why replacing a distribution package with your ownlocally built version of something is a big pain in the rear and thuswhy sysadmins almost never do it.

(I'm going to assume here that you're familiar with building fromsource in general.)

First, you have two options for how to do this; you can build fromsource and just do a ' make install ', or you can actually (re)build anew package

These days, an increasing number of storage appliances can do both NFSfileservice and iSCSI (generally using the same underlying pool of diskspace), which has resulted in me seeing an increasing number of peoplewho are wondering which one they should use.

The summary of my answer is that iSCSI is a SAN technology and NFS is afileservice technology. If you want to add storage to a single machine,iSCSI will work acceptably well; if you want to share files among abunch of machines, you want NFS.