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Mark Woodward wrote: > I sort of like having a web interface to the DLINK-321, are there any > similar projects for Linux? Not a lot of choices: Openfiler (CentOS based) http://www.openfiler.com/ NASLite (commercial) http://www.serverelements.com/ though there are a pile of "small business servers" that typically stick a proprietary web GUI on top of Linux and provide a bunch of services, like mail and storage. For example: ClearOS (formerly named ClarkConnect; CentOS based) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearOS or Amahi Home Server http://www.amahi.org/technology (a bit different in that it provides an "app store" of services you can install on Fedora or Ubuntu; claims to be fully open source). I'm not aware of a FreeNAS/Openfiler equivalent built on Debian or derived distribution, though you can always roll your own with a stock Debian and Webmin. Also in the FreeBSD camp is NAS4Free (http://www.nas4free.org/), and there are a few based on Solaris (Nexenta, OpenSMT). > I've used the Linux software raid in the past with mixed results. What > is your take on the modern iteration of the code? In my opinion Linux software RAID works great, and I've been reliably using it for years. I'm also of the opinion that LVM doesn't add enough upside to justify the effort of installing it and managing it, but you'll find lots of counter arguments for that. The "holy grail" for a home storage server is one in which you can largely treat as an appliance, and easily stick new disks into it to expand storage, without compromising (long term) performance and reliability, and without having to manually "grow" file systems, or worse, backup and rebuild the file system. The proprietary Drobo DAS devices came the closest to this on paper, but they were expensive and performed poorly. Things like unRAID and Greyhole (pooled SMB storage) attempt to address some of these needs, but ZFS pools are probably the closest practical version available as open source, and it still lacks a bunch of automaton to be on par with Drobo. If Btrfs has matured enough to offer some of these features, then I'd be looking more closely at it. -Tom -- Tom Metro Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA "Enterprise solutions through open source." Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/
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