Linux NFS server

[Travis Roy]

What about doing management of the drives via Webmin? I know that has stuff
for LVM as well as raid, NFS, and samba

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org 
> [mailto:gnhlug-discuss-admin at mail.gnhlug.org] On Behalf Of 
> Mark Komarinski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:26 AM
> To: pll at lanminds.com
> Cc: Andrew W. Gaunt; Greater New Hampshire Linux Users
> Subject: Re: Linux NFS server
> 
> 
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 09:33:40AM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> > >Specifically what we're looking at now is an NFS server
> > >from pogolinux (http://www.pogolinux.com), the storageware 3800.
> > 
> > I know nothing about PogoLinux.  Why them over something like a Dell
> > or HP and installing Linux yourself?
>  
> Probably the software.  The only NAS-control software that I 
> know of is Netattach, which seems to have fallen off the face 
> of the earth.
> 
> > Or, if you're just looking for pure NAS storage with NFS/SMB
> > capabilities, why not something like OpenNAS, or, if you have the 
> > money, a real NetApp.
> > 
> > If you don't have the money, I'd go with a standard PC server
> > combined with a small external RAID array connected via SCSI3.
> 
> BTW, if you're doing this, really take a look at LVM.  We're 
> buying IBM boxes with RAID built in, and use LVM to create 
> the filesystems we need.  It's still a manual process (CLI) 
> and you have to unmount ext2/3 filesystems if you want to 
> resize, but XFS/ReiserFS(?) can resize on the fly.
> 
> -Mark
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