Hi, The main problem with NFS is that it doesn't have common way to add users & manage disk quota.
I have tried for hosting automation but it has not worked. And according to Psoft have to use NetApp ( http://www.netapp.com ) for this. Regards, Manoj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mithun Bhattacharya Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 6:30 PM To: Linux Delhi Cc: Linux India Help Subject: [ilugd] NAS idea I have this brewing in my head for quite sometime and was wondering whether anyone was ready to try it out. I currently cant due to lack of resources but if it works you could probably earn some glory/money whatever. Basically I am looking at a Linux based NAS solution. Unless I am mistaken most NAS systems are costing 5-6 times the cost of the hardware involved. If my understanding is correct a simple NAS is: 1. A storage space available over the network 2. Fault tolerant 3. Expandable 4. Transparent 5. Compatible across OSes The way I see it is I need the following to get it going 1. Gigabit network 2. RAID 1/5 3. LVM 4. RAID and LVM can be configured to handle hot swap 5. Share disk space using NFS/SAMBA Of course it runs Linux or I wouldn't be talking here. There are two things currently lacking off the shelf. 1. A cabinet to hold/expand hard disks at least 4 hard disks to begin with 2. A web based application to manage the RAID and LVM setup. I am hoping I am making sense here and would like to solicit feedback as to the viability and interest in trying out the setup. Mithun __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
