[GRLUG] The perfect home file server

[Richard Nienhuis]

If you wanted to get really fancy you could use glusterfs and run a cifs
client for your win 7 machine to access.  And NFS client for any linux
machines.

Good luck with getting more HDs.  Prices have doubled since the thai floods.

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:04 PM, David Pembrook <dpembrook66 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'd really like to get the "perfect" file server setup going at home. I'm
> currently using Samba on a Debian machine.
>
> Its in a mixed environment of Linux and Windows machines, several family
> users and some of my daughter's friends also use the system. I have over
> 7tb storage to work with. Some of it needs to be mirrored or otherwise
> protected against data lost. Some of the data, mainly movies can be at risk
> as it consumes so much space and are replaceable. The real fly in the
> ointment is file indexing in Windows 7. I want to be able to find things
> fast regardless of desktop OS. Another problem would be migrating data as
> I'm using about 50% of my capacity. Buying a few large external hard drives
> from best buy and returning after use wouldn't be nice lol
>
> I've looked at ZFS as mentioned a while back on here and that looks real
> interesting. FreeNAS looks like an interesting way to go but I keep coming
> back to file indexing.
>
> Built on Linux or BSD is the only real requirement.  Forgetting about
> migration for now, any thoughts? I know one person's idea of perfect is far
> from perfect to the next though.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
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