[K12OSN] OT - Creating Network Attached Storage
Doug Simpson
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tue May 9 20:49:26 UTC 2006
DSL would work if you could get NFS on it.
For this purpose, though, I would just do a very minimal debian install
and add nfs support and export the whole drive as NFS. Could likely be run
on an old P or PII (maybe even a 486 if it would support the drives and
enough RAM and the load wasn't rediculous).
I would do something like this. . .
/dev/hda1 /boot 200M
/dev/hda2 /swap (twice memory size)
/dev/hda3 / 200M (debian for this will fit nicely)
/dev/hda4 /nfsmaster rest of the drive space on first drive
/dev/hdb1 /nfsmaster/dir1
/dev/hdc1 /nfsmaster/dir2 (keep on for as many drives as you have)
then on the main server:
make a directory:
/nfsmaster
and mount //NAS/nfsmaster /nasmaster (appropriate commandline switches)
This way, every drive from the NAS will show up under /nasmaster on the
main server.
No graphical anything needed after that. . . boot it, wait a bit and boot
the main server that is mounting the NFS from it.
Don't waste the resources to X on a NAS that you may never have to touch
unless power fails or something. . .
Only thing you may want to install on it is webmin which would allow you
to manage it with a graphical web browser from anywhere on your campus (or
otherwhere) but doesn't require X on the NAS.
Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!
On Tue, 9 May 2006, Mark Cockrell wrote:
> Hello all,
> Recently a colleague asked me if I knew of any turn-key,open-source
> NAS systems out there. The first thing I thought of was a cheap,
> white-box PC with a handful of drives, a network card and Damn Small
> Linux configured for Samba, NFS, FTP, etc. I thought, however, that I
> would appeal to the collective wisdom of the list to see if anyone knows
> of (or has the know-how to create) a simple, graphical NAS solution.
> Any thoughts?
>
> --
>
> C-ya,
> Mark
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