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 1LTILA-0008Je-0c for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 039EFE0392; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from genesis.genestate.com (unknown [212.21.116.18]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA084E0392 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.194.217.10] (faust.genestate.com [10.194.217.10]) by genesis.genestate.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CA761A17 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:00 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <498476AE.5090006@genestate.com> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:05:02 +0000 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) 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] Re: homemade nas setup References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> <49824D7D.4080105@genestate.com> <87y6wsjm98.fsf@newsguy.com> <49840DAB.70108@genestate.com> <87tz7fjxlc.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87tz7fjxlc.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 41aa704f-bb69-48ca-95ce-cf6e77cabb50 X-Archives-Hash: 65c3eaef3f071c5751deceb7808a189c 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 windows >> boxes onto it. > > Ahh sounds like what I'd be doing. Although I'm not really sure what > you mean by `via ISCSI' (a scsi transport?) iSCSI is kinda like ATA over ethernet, it allows you to "attach" a disk to a system, over the network, but have it appear like a local disk. For example, I have a windows 2003 domain controller that doesn't have much space for storing roaming profiles etc. So I attached a disk to it via iSCSI (in fact it is only a ZFS dataset, not a whole disk), windows sees it as a local SCSI disk and lets me format it with NTFS and use it for local storage. try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI >>> Your list email address looks like it might be a phony (I didn't try >>> it) but mine isn't so if you don't mind the personal contact please >>> let me know and I'll write direct. >> Well I didn't realise my address looked fake :P It is real and I'd be >> happy to try and answer your questions to the best of my ability. > > Hehe... no slam intended... some people do obfuscate there email on > lists such as this, and yours is somewhat unusual looking. > > I've had people say the same thing about mine... `newsguy' sounds kind > of made up. (True story =>) It used to be `zippo.com' some yrs ago but > they were sued by the famous `Zippo' lighter people and had to change > the name. They picked the silly name `newsguy'. No offense taken, i was just surprised :) Feel free to email me off-list if you want to talk ZFS etc, I'll be happy to answer what I can or point you to the people that know all ;) Matt