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From: Neil Jones on 31 May 2010 03:10
Hello,

We have a couple of old Dell PowerEdge servers with Dual Pentiums with 1
GB RAM and 4 160GB RAID disks. We don't know what type of RAID disks
are on this system though.

I would like to setup a NAS server using both the machines as one NAS
server. Is there any tutorial on how to setup a NAS server? I am
familiar with NFS but I recently heard of OpenFiler as a NAS solution.
Is this the only open source NAS solution?

Any information/pointers/advice is appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

NJ
From: habibielwa7id on 31 May 2010 04:42
On May 31, 10:10 am, Neil Jones <n...(a)dev.null> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a couple of old Dell PowerEdge servers with Dual Pentiums with 1
> GB RAM and 4 160GB RAID disks.  We don't know what type of RAID disks
> are on this system though.
>
> I would like to setup a NAS server using both the machines as one NAS
> server.  Is there any tutorial on how to setup a NAS server?  I am
> familiar with NFS but I recently heard of OpenFiler as a NAS solution.
> Is this the only open source NAS solution?
>
> Any information/pointers/advice is appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> NJ

I read about it before but haven't try it as I use manual tools like
rsync. Also there are some video tutorials about it on youtube
Freenas, It's based on the stable Free BSD and has many good features
and capabilities like software RAID, NFS, SAMBA, Web interface and
many more, You may try it.
From: Nico Kadel-Garcia on 31 May 2010 16:23
On May 31, 3:10 am, Neil Jones <n...(a)dev.null> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> We have a couple of old Dell PowerEdge servers with Dual Pentiums with 1
> GB RAM and 4 160GB RAID disks.  We don't know what type of RAID disks
> are on this system though.
>
> I would like to setup a NAS server using both the machines as one NAS
> server.  Is there any tutorial on how to setup a NAS server?  I am
> familiar with NFS but I recently heard of OpenFiler as a NAS solution.
> Is this the only open source NAS solution?
>
> Any information/pointers/advice is appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> NJ

Just about every Linux distribution can be a simple file server. It's
the organization of those tools into a sane overall configuration that
takes time: that's where something like Openfiler could be handy, if
you lack the timie or interest to learn it personally.

Ask yourself what you need this box to do, or want it to do. Does it
need to handle email? Web services? Source control systems like
Subversion? Will it do NFS, or CIFS, or something more exotic like AFS
or GFS or iSCSI. Lining up your requirements will help pick the
solutions you need or want: otherwise, we're throwing guesses over the
wall into your yard and hoping one of them lands and sprouts the
vegetables you want.
From: RayLopez99 on 31 May 2010 17:19
On May 31, 10:10 am, Neil Jones <n...(a)dev.null> wrote:
> Any information/pointers/advice is appreciated.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> NJ


No. Go away. This group is only interested in flaming. They don't
know if Linpus Linux will allow you to connect your Acer $300 PC to
the internet or not, so why should they know the answer to your more
complex question? See my other thread.

GO away troll. linux is perfect and requires no information that's
not in the Help /man page files that you can grep.

RL
From: J G Miller on 31 May 2010 18:18
On Mon, 31 May 2010 14:19:31 -0700, RayLopez99 wrote:

> They don't know if Linpus Linux will allow you to connect your
> Acer $300 PC to the internet or not,

You obviously do not know either, because you use Windoze.

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