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What the author really wants is network-attached storage. Find a cheap/old box, put your favourite flavour of Linux on it, add a few TB hard drives, and run Sa
by cbhl 14y ago
What the author really wants is network-attached storage.
Find a cheap/old box, put your favourite flavour of Linux on it, add a few TB hard drives, and run Samba. If performance is an issue, use a mobo with SATA 3 controllers and a few gigE ports, and add additional network daemons for more "native" networked filesytems (NFS, AFS, etc.) as necessary.
- timdorr 14y agoIf he doesn't want to spend any money on hardware, perhaps he could do the same with a Virtualbox VM? That can be hosted on all three of his OSes. I don't know about performance, though.
- cbhl 14y agoNo, that's silly, because it presents a chicken-and-egg problem -- where would you put the Virtualbox VM if you don't have a filesystem that all three OSes can read? I was very intentional in suggesting it be a separate physical device.