Kicking myself

dragon · 31-03-2011, 23:38

So after Trying several different Software solutions on my home server I finally settled on Centos 5.5 as it provides the Storage functionality i need (samba) + visualization.

Was copying a LOT of data from my NAS so I could both remove my 1.5TB disks and put them in the server instead (It's a lot faster) and after wasting most of the evening copying I've just remembered the NAS uses Linux software raid and either an EXT3 or EXT4 filesystem (depending on the firmware version that it was running when you formatted the drives)

So in the end I just popped the drive in the new system, it's just re-mirroring onto the other 1.5TB disk atm.

Much Faster, dunno why I didn't think about it earlier.

There is a 3GB partition I no longer need on each of the 2 1.5TB drives that is the NAS's OS but I'm not sure I can be bothered to risk doing anything with it (other than perhaps erasing the data on it because it had config.etc from the NAS)

Kymmy · 01-04-2011, 00:02

The simplest solutions normally hide themselves most efficiently

Another vote here though for Centos5, does great on my servers

dragon · 01-04-2011, 00:15

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Originally Posted by Kymmy

The simplest solutions normally hide themselves most efficiently

Another vote here though for Centos5, does great on my servers

Indeed, atlhough I have a bit of a love/hate relationship going on with Linux. I find it makes quite a decent server and will happilly use it on server machines and get along with it fine.

But I just can't seem to find a Distro that I actually like to use on the Desktop, I always seem to end up going back to running windows :-(

Was originally going to run a ZFS based storage appliance in a VM but quickly found that's just not a good idea in terms of performance and gets overcomplicated quite fast.

Guess where I'd been playing around a lot trying to find a configuration I was happy with I was still stuck in the mindset that I'd need to copy the data to the new filesystem.

Currently got Centos 5.5 + Webmin + Cloudmin GPL (KVM version) installed
Not tried creating a KVM based virtual machine yet mind.

Running x64 with 5gb ram on one of those HP microservers, now just need to remember to send off the cashback form in the next couple of weeks

Also need to install some kind of DLNA/Upnp media server.