<br>This may seem like heresy on a predominantly Linux forum but for anyone looking at building a stand-alone box to act as at NAS type device you shouldn't over-look OpenSolaris with ZFS. I have been using ZFS on my home file server for years (in a simple mirror config) and as the price of disks have come down I have just been replacing the disks and the space increases accordingly (no downtime if I had hot-swappable disks). It is so easy to set up and configure, not need to worry about which filesystem/volume management combo to use. <br>
<br>I am in the process of getting into the MythTV space (currently a happy home-brew TiVo user) to take advantage of Freeview HD TV and would be looking to run the backend as a virtual machine on my OpenSolaris host (since MythTV is not supported natively yet). The backend would either write to NFS or iSCSI shared disks from my ZFS pool. Currently I am sharing files to my sw modded XBox running XBMC which is what I am looking to upgrade. Getting a nice platform that can serve as a MythTV Frontend/XBMC combo, but that is for another thread.<br>
<br><br>Mark<br><br>Disclamer, yes I happen work for Sun but I would be using this combo even if I wasn't :-)<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 2:06 PM, Jim Cheetham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@inode.co.nz">jim@inode.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:54 PM, James Booth<<a href="mailto:james@booths.net.nz">james@booths.net.nz</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks Steve, that makes things clear.<br>
<br>
</div>Yep, I hadn't thought about adding a new drive by deliberately<br>
degrading the existing RAID sets, a handy trick :-)<br>
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-jim<br>
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