[KLUG Members] Linux Storage Server

[Mark Kowitz]

RAID card module?  I assume that will be card specific?  That was my
main concern . . .finding a older, cheap RAID card probably won't have
linux drivers.  I was hoping the firmware would create the virtual
drive and linux would just see it a generic disk drive in the BIOS,
and not need a driver. I prefer hardware RAID vs. software, which is
what, say, FreeNAS supplies.

Thanks,

mk

On 11/22/06, Nikolas Reist <reisttech at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> In theory that will all work.  For linux to mount the volume, however, the raid card module will need to be loaded.  SuSE and Ubuntu server will do this all automatically (well SuSE requires firewall tweaking on your internal NIC).  All my file and print shares work right out of the box with very little configuration.  Unless you need it to do something like manage account privaleges and use domain specific login based permissions.  Then you will want to go to http://samba.org and consult the documentation.
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> Does anyone have any experience with building a storage server with Linux as the OS?  Is it possible to create a RAID5 array using the BIOS of, say, an Adaptec card (then you wouldn't need drivers, right?), install Samba so Windows clients could see it, and then just let it run?  Am I missing something?  Any other ideas?
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