Hi!
On 1/14/07, jdd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
HG wrote:
> And he will also sell that home server to millions of homes
do you really mean "server"? Windows was never a server (at
home).
Check the URL that I gave ("Microsoft introduces Windows Home Server" from ARS).
If you mean really this I have a small course on the
openSUSE wiki about this, for now only in french, I could
translate it if there was interest (I don't see it for now)
- on fr wiki, search for "ALB".
Yes and no I do not understand french.
> So, how would you, jdd, create the home server? How do you setup the
> raid monitoring?
raid on a home server?
As I wrote, I'm going to build 2 home (office) servers, both requiring
more than 1TB of storage. I personally need as much as possible. I
have around 200 Gb of photos and as many hundred gigs as I can of
video (both from DV video that we have taken as well as some
recordings from our digibox (something like TiVo).
Would you not put those on RAID? Or tell friends to put their stuff on
plain disks? Where do you store you important files?
There are commercial systems available that are actually trying to
answer this kind of need. Just take a look at TeraStation from Buffalo
for instance. It's largest version, 2Gb worth of disk with RAID-5, is
selling very well at online stores. I would buy that, except that it
cheaper to build one and as it doesn't have all the features I want
(and real distribution can offer).
How to set up samba with quotas and permissions for
> children?
samba? to do what? on Linux it's fairly simple to make a
"children" group with reduced permissions. quotas is an
other story that don"t seems at all difficult (but barely
needed at home)
So, even you admit that setting quotas is "another story" from just
being fairly simple. You might not need them at home. Many do.
Which FS to choose so that the FS can later on easily made
> bigger or smaller
ext3 is perfect for this
Well, ext3 is my choice, but actually because I might not be able to
rely on UPS, if I can not find anything cheap. Ext3 journals data
also.
(when a small RAID needs to be removed to make room
> for larger)?
do you really know what RAID mean? (Redundant Array of
Inexpensive Disks)
Yes, for myself, I'm planning to make a home server of my old
dual-PIII so that for data it contains one mirror set from old PATA
disks and as large SATA RAID-5 as I can reasonably get (and small
system drive). I'm also going to put LVM on top of those to get one
large partition. And I want to add and remove disk systems from that
partition (in my case, if one of the PATA disks die from the mirror, I
will not replace that just remove the mirror completely and thus
shrink the disk.) Setting up the RAID's and LVM is very easy with YaST
partitioner. But like I said, the monitoring, rezising all that, is
not possible with YaST.
Yes, I do know what RAID means.
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