[GRLUG] The perfect home file server

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Sun, 2011-10-30 at 13:04 -0400, David Pembrook wrote:
> 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.

Why is indexing an issue?  Are you referring to adding UNC references to
a "library"?

>  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

Are you currently deployed on LVM?  If so then add the new drives as
physical volumes [potentially mirrored] and just do a pvmove.

> 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.



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