From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RB8tb-0005f2-VT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:35:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 672F921C0FE; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:34:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (svr-us4.tirtonadi.com [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 424B8E0027 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 17:34:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ey0-f181.google.com ([209.85.215.181]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RB8sX-002fiK-Bg for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:34:05 +0700 Received: by eyg5 with SMTP id 5so884923eyg.40 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.223.44.67 with SMTP id z3mr2071811fae.47.1317749638880; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.74.196 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.74.196 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Oct 2011 10:33:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:33:58 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NAS for Windows - does any Wiki solution 'just work'? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0015174762e020ddc104ae7c7fa0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5774f0d6d63e939e4aa449dcdc2ef749 --0015174762e020ddc104ae7c7fa0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of > > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? > > > > Rgds, > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these. > > Some comments: > > 1) The machine is already running Gentoo and is reasonably up to date. > (Within 30 days or so) I didn't want to start from scratch but rather > just wanted to remove a couple of drives which don't support system > needs, throw a couple of 1TB hard drives and hopefully I'm up and > running. > > 2) As for the three suggestions, and at a glance they all look very > capable of supporting my limited needs, I really don't want to learn > to maintain a server running different tools. (I.e. - anything not > portage) > > I sure like the look of the FreeNAS pages though. > TBH, I have no experience with either FreeNAS or Nexenta, but people I know in other fora swear by them. As to OpenFiler, I've deployed it several times in my office, twice for production. It's quite easy to manage, especially since it's update-able from the webGUI. There *is* a learning curve, though. Exposing OpenFiler to act as a NAS box that's accessible from Windows has a few gotchas, but after reading some wikis, I got it up and running beautifully. Rgds, --0015174762e020ddc104ae7c7fa0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8


On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of
> > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta?
> >
> > Rgds,
> >
>
> Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these.
>
> Some comments:
>
> 1) The machine is already running Gentoo and is reasonably up to date.
> (Within 30 days or so) I didn't want to start from scratch but rather
> just wanted to remove a couple of drives which don't support system
> needs, throw a couple of 1TB hard drives and hopefully I'm up and
> running.
>
> 2) As for the three suggestions, and at a glance they all look very
> capable of supporting my limited needs, I really don't want to learn
> to maintain a server running different tools. (I.e. - anything not
> portage)
>
> I sure like the look of the FreeNAS pages though.
>

TBH, I have no experience with either FreeNAS or Nexenta, but people I know in other fora swear by them.

As to OpenFiler, I've deployed it several times in my office, twice for production. It's quite easy to manage, especially since it's update-able from the webGUI.

There *is* a learning curve, though. Exposing OpenFiler to act as a NAS box that's accessible from Windows has a few gotchas, but after reading some wikis, I got it up and running beautifully.

Rgds,

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