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> ZFS? I certainly desire for it to be ZFS. NetApp seems to be threatening to sue people who ship devices based on ZFS and suing Sun itself. Might want to sta
by jolan 16y ago
> ZFS? I certainly desire for it to be ZFS.
NetApp seems to be threatening to sue people who ship devices based on ZFS and suing Sun itself. Might want to stay away from that.
> What software would be best to control it, rather than writing our own, which would slow things down. Ideally this would amount to putting parts together, not reinventing the wheel.
Just need to create a web interface to the underlying tools.
> Time Machine backups from Apple's kit
Possible with Netatalk.
As far as hw specs and whatnot, you could do a basic 2 disk atom server if you just want storage and minimal NFS/CIFS sharing over the network.
My preference would be a Core i5/i7 4 disk system so you could real-time transcode HD video for streaming to UPNP media devices.
- biturd 16y agoYeah, the ZFS stuff is getting a little out of hand. However, I am not wanting to get into the business of selling a hardware device, I only want to make the plans for the community to solve all the issues surrounding it. FreeNAS is almost there, and they do seem to support ZFS now that I was looking into it more today. It looks like it is now just a matter of finding the right hardware. I think I do need 5 disks, 4 for backup and one for parity. Hopefully it will support Time Machine right out of the box, since Time Machine backs to a sparse bundle, which by nature, can handle all the Mac OS X meta data. Are you aware of anything that is 5-6 disks, GB, 5-6 SATA ports, or 2-3 multiplied, that is not huge, ugly, and massively expensive? Thanks for the pointers, I will start looking into the core if/i7 stuff too.
- jolan 16y ago> Are you aware of anything that is 5-6 disks, GB, 5-6 SATA ports, or 2-3 multiplied, that is not huge, ugly, and massively expensive? Nope but you might be able to find an eSATA card and enclosure. That would give you more choice over the server. Another reason why I mentioned Core i5/i7 is because the newer models have AES instructions so you could do AES encrypted backups at gigabit wirespeed. Maybe something like this on the low end: - Supermicro Atom D510 - $360 - 4GB RAM - $40 - PCI-E Riser - $20 - eSATA card - $20 - Areca ARC-5020 - $450 - 5 x 1TB drives - $450 - Total: $1340 USD http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101332&cm_re=supermicro_atom_d510-_-16-101-332-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151046&Tpk=areca%20esata http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816151... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158093&cm_re=esata_card-_-15-158-093-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815158... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136284&cm_re=western_digital_caviar_black_1tb-_-22-136-284-_-Product http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136...