Comments on: The joys of open source NAS http://miroadamy.com/2007/01/21/the-joys-of-open-source-nas/ Comments, thoughts and observations on technology, web and life Tue, 12 Jul 2011 06:34:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Miro http://miroadamy.com/2007/01/21/the-joys-of-open-source-nas/#comment-55 Sun, 25 May 2008 14:22:07 +0000 http://thinkwrap.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/the-joys-of-open-source-nas/#comment-55 I ended up with software RAID under Linux, of course – using Fedora distribution and partitioning not too different from what you described …

]]> By: Nigel http://miroadamy.com/2007/01/21/the-joys-of-open-source-nas/#comment-54 Sun, 25 May 2008 08:19:36 +0000 http://thinkwrap.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/the-joys-of-open-source-nas/#comment-54 What did you do in the end?

Software raid under Linux is the way to go…mdadm is a great tool.

If you are using an older non PCI-E motherboard then using another hard disk just hurts your performance.

Software Raid under Windows 2003 Server is ok but slower than Linux and prone to failures.

Just partition your disks as follows :

sda
3 gb sda1 software raid (type fd)
rest of drive sda2 software raid

sdb, sdc…etc
same as for sda

Then create the following raid partitions :

/dev/md0 use sda1, sdb1 as / format to ext3
/dev/md1 use sdc1, sdd1 as swap
/dev/md2 use sda2, sdb2, sdc2, sdd2 as /data format as xfs

Then load your favourite Linux (Ubuntu etc) or NAS software (OpenFiler etc) and install it on /dev/md0, create the swap on /dev/md1 and put /dev/md2 in a suitable place say /dev/data.

Create a SAMBA share of /data, set your permissions and away you go…

Hope that helps :-)

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