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 RAID1
[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
Edward Net Harvey opined:
> But even losing
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Tom Metro 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 clarifications and
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
[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
On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Tom Metro 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. Though if yo
> 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 o
While researching to buy/build an HTPC (likely to run XBMC) I ran across:
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?s=25935987f91ef317c33806af17e06e7a&t=94268
unRAID
Advantages of Unraid
-Allows you to mix and match drives of different sizes and makes into
a single "User Share" of pooled sto
