Alexandru Asofie wrote:

Hello,

I need to setup a NAS server on Centos. The machine will be: Dual xeon/Dual Opteron 4GB memory 13x 320GB SATA + 1 hotspare 1x 320GB SATA for OS The server can do RAID5,6,or 10. Has anyone installed such a software and can you recommand a specific product?

Thank you.

I've built multi-terabyte systems around CentOS, and I'm in the process of writing up the "Poor Man's SAN" in my copious free time! ;)

You don't mention what kind of RAID card you're using, but I stick with 3Ware. In a nutshell, all you need to do is a minimal install of CentOS from the first CD. Yum update everything. After this point, you can config Samba for your Windows clients, or NFS for other *nixes as needed. Could probably do AFS as well for Macs, but I haven't done that before.

You'll have to wait until I get my howto done to configure hourly snapshots, etc....

HTH

Mark