Re: [zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris
I can strongly recommend this series of articles http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ Very good! :o) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
[zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris
At the risk of getting myself flamed with my very first post, will someone please point me to the 'Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris'? - - - sig - - - ...What I lack in knowledge I try to make up in witty humor. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris
On Thu, February 18, 2010 16:21, Robert wrote: At the risk of getting myself flamed with my very first post, will someone please point me to the 'Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris'? I wish. I especially wish it had been around the summer of 2006. This is one of the better things out there: http://breden.org.uk/2008/03/02/a-home-fileserver-using-zfs/ And falling back on http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Troubleshooting_Guide is often useful. (I've just been adding a controller and a new hot-swap bay, moving my boot disks down to 2.5 drives in the new mini hot-swap bay, and moving towards adding a third pair of disks to the data pool.) My one near-philosophical conclusion (applying to home-scale NAS; probably many small business environments too really): Use mirror pairs rather than RAIDZ groups. This lets you upgrade in smaller increments and more safely, rather than having to buy say 5 bleeding-edge drives all at once to upgrade, and putting your pool at risk through 5 resilver cycles. With a mirror you can attach another disk BEFORE you detach the old disk, so you can upgrade without risk. At today's disk sizes and prices, 100% redundancy is affordable, and it makes lots of other things simpler and safer. For some requirement sets (capacity need, data retention need) this doesn't fit though; temporary video storage, say, that you're willing to do without if something goes wrong worse than RAIDZ can handle. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris
Hi Robert Have a look at these links: http://delicious.com/nwsmith/opensolaris-nas Regards Nigel Smith -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris
hello you could try my napp-it zfs server it's a zfs server, a minimal opensolaris-based server installation, together with a web-gui - suitable also for non-solaris people - easy to install, ready to run use either nexenta (new version based on snv 133) or opensolaris/eon - at the moment i would prefer nexenta see a href=http://www.napp-it.org/napp-it.pdf; target=_blankwww.napp-it.org/napp-it.pdf/a gea www.napp-it.org -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
Re: [zfs-discuss] Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Robert rkaye+...@spamcop.netrkaye%2b...@spamcop.net wrote: At the risk of getting myself flamed with my very first post, will someone please point me to the 'Idiots Guide to Running a NAS with ZFS/OpenSolaris'? - - - sig - - - ...What I lack in knowledge I try to make up in witty humor. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss I don't think there is a guide like that but honestly, it's not that hard for most of it. It also really depends on what your hardware is...how you plan to set it up and all but once you install it, getting CIFS and NFS working is dirt simple (though the ACL's can be somehwhat more difficult, though i just create a group nas and use something like this: /usr/bin/chmod -R A=\ owner@:full_set:d:allow,\ owner@:full_set:f:allow,\ group:nas:full_set:d:allow,\ group:nas:full_set:f:allow,\ everyone@:rxaARWcs:d:allow,\ everyone@:raARWcs:f:allow \ /tank/nas/ which seems to work well. I also use something like this: /usr/bin/chmod -R A=\ owner@:full_set:d:allow,\ owner@:full_set:f:allow,\ user:wonslung:full_set:d:allow,\ user:wonslung:full_set:f:allow,\ everyone@:rxaARWcs:d:allow,\ everyone@:raARWcs:f:allow \ /tank/nas/Wonslung but anyways, which part do you need help with. Most of it is fairly straigh forward for simple nas. Installing is pretty simple. creating a zpool is pretty simple, enabling cifs is pretty simple, creating shares once you have it is pretty simple. The ACL's were what gave me the most trouble at first which is why i made a point to post them. (being really new to solaris i kept trying to use the wrong chmod and it didn't work) but the main thing is: google is your friend. ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
