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

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com 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

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

2009-01-31 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org 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

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 pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com 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

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

2009-01-31 Thread Matt Harrison
Harry Putnam wrote: Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com 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

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org 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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Norman Rieß
Harry Putnam schrieb: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org 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

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org 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

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

2009-01-30 Thread Stroller
On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Harry Putnam wrote: Norman Rieß nor...@smash-net.org 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.

[gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup

2009-01-30 Thread Harry Putnam
Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com 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