I have pulled drives out of the DNS-323 as well as several other brands of NAS. Most of the time the drive is just mirrored with mdadm (Linux pure software RAID). I think I only ever encountered on that had LVM layered on top.
Anyway, for all but the Drobo, the disks show up when plugged into a Debian or Ubuntu box. If you connect both drives the software RAID also usually works without user intervention as long as you have the userspace tools installed. Right now I have a hate on for BSD filesystems and zfs. My one real project this holiday season is to replace an aging and all round PITA BSD firewall at a friend's business. I have been working with iptables and the rest of the Linux networking stack for too long, I find pf and the rest of the BSD stack to be annoying. :) On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 8:29 PM, John Jardine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > > First Merry Christmas, failing that, Happy Holidays (graceful degradation :) > ) > > As far as project #1 goes ... I'm not sure how much better this is than > having a library of links to the same resources ... I think the latter > approach doesn't require as much maintenance, though links do die. When they > do the Internet time machine can usually find what you're looking for. > > The DNS-323 is an interesting device. Something you may want to think about > is how do you recover not from a drive failure but from a device failure. I > actually hit this a year ago when I had Seagate (pah -spits) drives. > Seagate had an issue with a bad series of drives, the end result was that I > couldn't pull a drive to image it. That led me to getting a 2nd DNS-323 and > copying data to it. Something to think about. I have never tried to access > one of the drives after pulling it from the DNS-323 - should be possible, > but unproven by me. > > Not trying to plug my blog, but I have some stuff on configuring the DNS-323 > here: http://www.herd-of-neurons.com/DLINK_DNS-323_NFS.html > Hopefully you'll find something of use there. > > For a personal cloud ... Have you looked at the Pogo Plug? I haven't messed > with it much but they are cheap and hackable, always a good combination. > > Just a few random thoughts, > > Cheers > J.J. > > > > On Sun, 2011-12-25 at 15:50 -0700, TekBudda wrote: > > I guess no one has any comments. Hmm! > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
