Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup

["Norman Rieß" <norman@smash-net.org>]

Harry Putnam schrieb:
> A few I can think of are space and noise.. but having never been
> around our run a nas setup... I'm not sure if that is really true.
>
> Anyway, a few thoughts on what I might be running into doing it myself,
> or missing compared to storebought.  Maybe maintenance
> considerations.. or whatever, would be welcome.
>
>   

I am running my old AthlonXP system with 2 gig ram, a minimal
installation on a small extra disk, 3 disks for data as raid 5 and some
crypto, as a home nas. The system is build from spare parts except the
data disks and a small sata controller, which i had to buy. The old
miditower resides in a lumber-room under a shelf. So noise and space is
no problem. Of course you could build such a system in a smaller case.

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 would care.

As maintainence i do ,beside the regular emerge --sync and updates, a
raidcheck every weekend, but that can be cronjobed of course.

One point i feel mentionable is scalability. You buy a home nas with two
disks and you are stuck with that two disks because the case can not
handle more than that. Your do-it-yourself nas can do that.
It is a point of personal liking i think. I mean, you buy a home nas
click 5 minutes in the gui an you are done. Selfmade nas needs
understanding of the system, setting the whole thing up and some
configfile changes every now and then.

Regards
Norman