On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: <SNIP> > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? > > Rgds, >
Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these. Some comments: 1) The machine is already running Gentoo and is reasonably up to date. (Within 30 days or so) I didn't want to start from scratch but rather just wanted to remove a couple of drives which don't support system needs, throw a couple of 1TB hard drives and hopefully I'm up and running. 2) As for the three suggestions, and at a glance they all look very capable of supporting my limited needs, I really don't want to learn to maintain a server running different tools. (I.e. - anything not portage) I sure like the look of the FreeNAS pages though. Thanks! Cheers, Mark
