Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Thompson
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). I tried

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Steve Thompson
On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). How about eSATA? Surely an

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Steve Thompson wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread William Warren
On 12/16/2009 12:10 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: On 12/15/09 2:48 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread William Warren
On 12/16/2009 9:34 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Steve Thompson wrote: On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/15/2009 7:48 AM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). (snip)

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Thomas Harold
On 12/16/2009 9:41 AM, William Warren wrote: On 12/16/2009 12:10 AM, Eero Volotinen wrote: Still going to need 10TB of backups. And i can guarantee you the chances of having a URE during rebuild are almost certain with this setup so a backup is going to be crucial. Sounds like a nightmare

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-16 Thread Keith Keller
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 09:57:38AM -0500, Thomas Harold wrote: Yah, RAID-6 at a minimum, I wouldn't depend on RAID-5, even with a hot-spare. So to get 10TB, you'd need 13 drives (10 data, 2 parity, 1 hot-spare). 2TB drives are available for ~$300-$400 each. Eight 2TB disks would provide

[CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Scott Ehrlich
I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). The next fun piece is how to incorporate that storage

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Toby Bluhm
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). The next fun piece is how to

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Toby Bluhm
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). The next fun piece is how to

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread nate
Scott Ehrlich wrote: What are my best options? The mere thought of doing what your tasked with doing makes me want to drink a lot of hard alcohol. As another poster noted get a more proper storage system. If it were me I would just hook the drives to one of the existing windows servers and use

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What are my best options? The mere thought of doing what your tasked with doing makes me want to drink a lot of hard alcohol. I'll second that but say I want some alcohol anyway:) Keep in mind that most external usb enclosures don't provide adequate cooling for devices that get written to any

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Kristopher Kane
The mere thought of doing what your tasked with doing makes me want to drink a lot of hard alcohol. HA! This thread really made my day. I liken this to applying duct tape to the wings of a 747. I would look out the window and say, Neat! nate: that quote is going on my wall at work. So long

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Eero Volotinen
On 12/15/09 2:48 PM, Scott Ehrlich wrote: I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap storage in a single mount point). Err.. buy

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Keith Keller
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:30:13PM -0500, Kristopher Kane wrote: I liken this to applying duct tape to the wings of a 747. I would look out the window and say, Neat! ...and then change your ticket as fast as humanly possible. :) --keith -- kkel...@speakeasy.net

Re: [CentOS] LVM, usb drives, Active Directory

2009-12-15 Thread Nicholas
Scott, Samba is proven to work with AD, whats the other alternative? You can always tie Samba to the centralised credentials. Scott Ehrlich wrote: I'd rather not use Samba, as that is its own infrastructure and maintains its own credentials database. -- Nicholas A. Suppiah