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 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
