From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LSrzR-0002Lp-7A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:56:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC244E02B0; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from india533.server4you.de (india533.server4you.de [85.25.151.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7171E02B0 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:56:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [85.25.151.41] (india533.server4you.de [85.25.151.41]) by india533.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5F6F770628 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:56:49 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4982EB00.2010309@smash-net.org> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:56:48 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Norman_Rie=DF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080922) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] homemade nas setup References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 96fea559-338a-483c-8745-115dcb9fda54 X-Archives-Hash: e3fdee2d6eb166f913731e03e0f60045 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