Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison writes: Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing on a domain via cifs. I've got backups running from linux and win

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison writes: >> Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter >> of making it available by way of samba/cifs? > >I'm using it for both attached storage via ISCSI, and standard sharing >on a domain via cifs. I've got backups running from linux and windows >boxes on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 30 January 2009 18:30:41 Harry Putnam wrote: > Peter Humphrey writes: > > I just bought a USB hard disk and plug it into whichever box I want to > > back up. Each box has a small rescue system, which I boot into to make > > the backup to ensure that all files are copied. Just a simple ta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: > Norman Rieß writes: > > >> Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup? > > > >> It is a gigabit setup. NFS read is about 30-34MB/s, writing is >> considerably slower with 15MB/s. So writing is a bit slow. But as i do >> not need fast storage i did not in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison writes: I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth it. I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison writes: > I know its a little OT, but I have to mention ZFS. It'll mean running > Solaris or FreeBSD in order to get the best out of it, but it's worth > it. > > I changed my fileserver from a gentoo box with software raid and lvm > over to ZFS on OpenSolaris and I haven't looked ba

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Harry Putnam wrote: Norman Rieß writes: The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe that is something s

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß writes: >> Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup? >> > It is a gigabit setup. NFS read is about 30-34MB/s, writing is > considerably slower with 15MB/s. So writing is a bit slow. But as i do > not need fast storage i did not investigate. And it must be mentioned, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: > Norman Rieß writes: > > >> The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some >> fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the >> config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe >> that is something some peopl

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß writes: > The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some > fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the > config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe > that is something some people would miss. But i do not think a

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey writes: > On Friday 30 January 2009 00:06:05 Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I've been looking into setting up or getting somekind of nas >> storage/backup capability lately so thought I'd ask about it here >> since I'm sure some of you will be using something or will have built >> your o