Scott Ehrlich wrote: > I have a client with a handful of USB drives connected to a CentOS > box. I am charged with binding the USB drives together into a single > LVM for a cheap storage data pool (10 x 1 TB usb drives = 10 TB cheap > storage in a single mount point). How about eSATA? Surely an eSATA enclosure for 10 drives won't be more expensive than ten individual usb enclosures?! > > The next fun piece is how to incorporate that storage space into an > existing Active Directory structure to apply AD acls for limited > access. AD does not have acls. NTFS does. The closet things to NTFS acls in UNIX is nfs4 acls. That you can get with ZFS. I suggest that you give OpenSolaris a shot instead. Or you can be one of the testers for ntfs-3g's acl implementation... > > I'd rather not use Samba, as that is its own infrastructure and > maintains its own credentials database. Have you ever used winbind? It maps AD credentials to POSIX credentials. > > What are my best options? Stuff not provided by Centos/RHEL at the moment.