Rich Braun wrote:
...the unRAID sales pitch smacks of a solution in search of a problem.
The built-in Linux RAID5 does it quite well for me, allowing mismatched
drives...
With terabyte drives in the $50 price range, I can't see a situation
where kernel-based software RAID1 or RAID10
From: discuss-boun...@blu.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@blu.org] On Behalf
Of Tom Metro
(ZFS pools are perhaps the closest approximation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Storage_pools
but I don't think you can pull an arbitrary drive from a pool and
replace it with a higher capacity one and
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote:
While researching to buy/build an HTPC (likely to run XBMC) I ran across:
This is a good illustration of why we'd be better off getting
unRAID-like functionality added to a solid, widely used OS, like Linux
or FreeBSD.
[resending, my first was blocked in moderator queue]
Edward Net Harvey opined:
But even losing 5% of your
files is usually considered fatal, so that's why people usually adopt the
strategy of never losing more than their redundancy level, and make sure you
have backups.
Indeed; the unRAID
Bill Bogstad wrote:
It also says that the individual data drives are formatted with
ReiserFS.
That doesn't bode well. Not exactly a popular choice these days, having
been mostly abandoned for ext3.
A quick google search implies that the source code to their
changes are available, but its
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-...@vl.com wrote:
Bill Bogstad wrote:
It also says that the individual data drives are formatted with
ReiserFS.
That doesn't bode well. Not exactly a popular choice these days, having
been mostly abandoned for ext3.
Thanks for your
[Forwarding on behalf of Rich Braun, whose list subscription needs
adjustment, and apparently the list management UI isn't working yet. -Tom]
Original Message
Subject: Re: unRAID
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 15:04:43 +
From: Rich Braun ri...@pioneer.ci.net
Edward Net Harvey
While researching to buy/build an HTPC (likely to run XBMC) I ran across:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?s=25935987f91ef317c33806af17e06e7at=94268
unRAID
Advantages of Unraid
-Allows you to mix and match drives of different sizes and makes into
a single User Share of pooled
