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Hans-Werner Hilse <hilse@×××.de> writes: |
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> Hi, |
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> On Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:47:12 -0600 reader@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> Is this possible withou really negative impact of some sort. |
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> If this is a question (please clarify a bit, and use question marks |
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> when appropriate!): Of course it has a negative impact -- opposed to |
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> built-in storage, which should be faster than network based storage :-) |
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Did you not see the rest of the post? (Reposted below) |
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Is this possible withou[t] really negative impact of some |
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sort:[colon added] |
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Install as many HDD as mobo allows maybe adding a few more with |
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pci controllsers. (all sata if possible) |
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Install Gentoo as host OS on a smallish partition or drive. Mount |
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all remaining drives as CIFS mounts accessable from samba or smb |
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from host or windowsXP clients. All this over gigabit ethernet. |
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> But if you have Windows clients, that's almost the only option you |
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> have. Well, you could go with WebDAV, but I wouldn't recommend that, |
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> it's most probably not nearly as stable as Samba. |
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No, that isn't true. If you mean mounting the hosts HDD as cifs |
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mounts. Windows machines have no trouble accessing host gentoo drives |
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with no special setup other than samba running. |
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> Even for Linux/Unix clients (given they have proper CIFS/SMB support) |
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> Samba is a capable option for a networked file system. |
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It is clear enough that samba and cifs is required to network with |
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windows machines... that I know going in. |
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The question once again was, can one install a working gentoo OS on a |
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machine and then mount some number of the machines on board HDD as |
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cifs mounts to be accessed with samba internally by the host OS as well |
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as thru smb from any networked computers? |
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What I want here is to know if the host OS can be made to see its own |
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native drives as cifs mounted shares. |
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The drives would be formatted NTFS and would be the basis of a home |
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built NAS [Network Attached Storage]. I want them all NTFS to feed a |
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space hungry Event Videography business. |
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I don't want to dink around with mounting as NTFS on linux since it |
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really isn't yet supported, but want to access these drives solely |
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thru samba. |
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> OTOH, there's Windows SFU, which you can use to mount NFS shares, but I |
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> heard it's a pain in the *** to set it up. |
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You heard right. It does work once you understand the setup but then |
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far as I know NFS has some inherent bottleneck to moving large files |
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anyway. (That is hearsay... not from experience.. I had no really |
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large files to move back when I had Windows SFU set up nor was I |
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concerned with that) |
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