[ale] Linux NAS Distribution

[Jerald Sheets]

Well, that's my point.

It seems that SuSE "off-the-shelf" (tm) did just fine in being a NAS  
without getting into a special distro.

You could actually just take what you know, build a linux box to your  
specs, share out the file area via NFS, and you're ready to go.


Or am I still being dense and missing something?  (entirely likely)


--j


On Jul 8, 2007, at 8:09 AM, Christopher Fowler wrote:

> On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 22:47 -0400, ale-request at ale.org wrote:
>> I mean,
>> if it'll handle a few million a day for us...
>
> I'm just looking at is what out there.  I do not have the traffic you
> have for storing our files.  We store things like ACT! databases
> backups, MS Office documents, Marketing stuff, etc.  Normal office  
> type
> stuff.  What I want to build is a NAS that has 2 identical drives in a
> software RAID1 configuration.  I also want either a DVD-RW or Blu-Ray
> burner so that I can make backups.  We have so much stuff that it  
> is not
> feasible to backup on DVD anymore.  The capacity of Blu-Ray looks
> promising. The burners are still pricey though.   With a NAS
> distribution I can just build a PC that meets those requirements and
> control it via a browser like FreeNAS does.  If the DVD backup was
> integrated into the web interface then someone other than me could do
> their own backups.
>
>
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