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 1LT4gn-0005fi-HN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 560FCE044F; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E5EE044F for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25FE643CB for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:27 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.536 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.536 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.063, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id W3UuWJJdLt+3 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776F5643A7 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LT4ga-0008FG-4P for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:16 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:16 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:30:16 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: homemade nas setup Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:29:55 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87y6wsjm98.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87y6wtlksy.fsf@newsguy.com> <49824D7D.4080105@genestate.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:slylOe8u4QsV9rBKzkgnOn32TiE= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: e4df405f-0ff9-447c-9725-5da815c352b7 X-Archives-Hash: 29e18e6257abaa6da1578b2acc5bdf13 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 back. Gentoo is still > my main OS but I think you just can't beat ZFS for a filer. Matt, I'm interested in quizzing you further on this so will ask the main question here. But, if you don't mind I'd like to talk to you off list at more length. Maybe a few pointer getting Opensolaris setup with the ZFS or the like. Are you backing up any windows boxes onto the ZFS? Is it just a matter of making it available by way of samba/cifs? 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.