Fw: [Madlug] server distro

[Travis Sobeck]

Setting the raid question aside for a moment, if you're looking to play with all sorts of different options for serving of files (NAS/SAN/etc) I like openfiler or freenas.  They each have there different pluses.




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From: Brian Hagen <byronkeys at inxpress.net>
To: madlug at madisonlinux.org
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:02:26 PM
Subject: [Madlug] server distro

   I have received a motherboard which is optimized for RAID operations. Although
it is not fast by today's levels, the CPU runs fast enough for it to configured as a fileserver.

   The board is an ABIT KR7A-RAID with four IDE slots, and I have placed it into
a new ATX minitower chassis and booted it up via  Knoppix-derived utility CD.
I can see from this bootup that the "dmesg" output specifically calls out RAID hardware
functionality.  Since that is the case even without any hard drives added (so far,  just a
DIMM and a CD-ROM drive are installed to ensure that it boots up before I spend $$$
on storage, etc.),  I find this encouraging. Since I want to combine learning about RAID
under Linux with making this system into a dedicated fileserver, does anyone recommend
a distro that is at least optimized for fileservers, and possible supports RAID operations?
Opinions, please ...

Brian H.
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