David A. Woyciesjes spake the following on 3/29/2007 6:29 AM: > Dave wrote: >> Hello, >> I've got a 4.4 box that i'd like to implement software raid on. >> Does anyone have any experiences with this? >> Thanks. >> Dave. > > I'm going to be setting up a machine at home, for keeping backup > copies of my data & software. For various reasons (work being one) the > "server" is going to be a dual boot W2K/Linux machine, and I'll have > MacOSX, W2K, and Linux clients accessing this over the network. I'll > probably just fire up NFS for this. > I have a 60GB drive, and 2 80GB drives for it. I'll be adding in a > Rosewill RC-200 PCI ATA/133 card for the 80GB drives. It says it does > RAID, but that is probably one of those fake-RAID deals. Anybody use > this card? Since it's likely not real RAID, my plan is to have on 80GB > drive formatted as ext3, then use rsync daily to back that up to the > other 80GB drive. Then I can use something like EXT2 IFS (from > fs-driver.org) in W2K if/when I need to access the backup drives. > I thought about a software RAID1 in Linux ext3 format, but the > EXT2IFS driver probably wouldn't be able to read that, right? > Then, to make things interesting, I have an external 300GB drive > with NTFS format. This contains the portable copy of the data store. :) > Not too much of an issue, since Linux can read NTFS fine. Or am I wrong > here? Should I flip this to Ext3, considering my other thoughts on this > setup? > The best common denominator would be fat32 on the external. Linux, Windows, and I think even the Macs can read and write to it. The biggest limit to fat32 is the maximum of 2 gig file sizes. Have you thought about just looking for an old PII PC in a garage sale and just making it a server? You could use something as simple as Freenas and make it a network storage point. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!