FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience Clipboard resources for end-users and developers. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10888 tai viinikka Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:00:23 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10888 Soliiiiid! Thanks for noting the wattage and your other followups re: hw vs. sw RAID. I may have to go this way if I can't get one of the wee consumer NAS solutions to be flexible enough. Soliiiiid! Thanks for noting the wattage and your other followups re: hw vs. sw RAID. I may have to go this way if I can’t get one of the wee consumer NAS solutions to be flexible enough.

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10815 Ryan Wed, 28 May 2008 01:56:23 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10815 <p>Hi,<br /> I'm curious. if you decide to expand can you just a a bigger drive and have it get bigger by the size of the drive or do all the drives have to be the same size?</p> Thornsoft Replies: I'm mirroring now, which uses two drives. So to use another drive, you could switch to RAID-5. Either way, it's best to use drives of the same size. You can do the JBOD though, and just add the space. But JBOD doesn't give redundancy. So yes, it would probably be best to use a RAID-5 or Mirror (RAID1) with identical drives. There may be ways to slice up partitions and use part of a larger drive for a mirror and the rest for another volume, but that gets complicated. Hi,
I’m curious. if you decide to expand can you just a a bigger drive and have it get bigger by the size of the drive or do all the drives have to be the same size?

Thornsoft Replies: I’m mirroring now, which uses two drives. So to use another drive, you could switch to RAID-5. Either way, it’s best to use drives of the same size. You can do the JBOD though, and just add the space. But JBOD doesn’t give redundancy. So yes, it would probably be best to use a RAID-5 or Mirror (RAID1) with identical drives. There may be ways to slice up partitions and use part of a larger drive for a mirror and the rest for another volume, but that gets complicated.

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10121 admin Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:00:32 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10121 EV, Update: I did chmod 770 on the dev and prod directories, and now the kids can't open them. EV, Update:
I did chmod 770 on the dev and prod directories, and now the kids can’t open them.

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10114 admin Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:46:33 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-10114 Hi EV, You're right - everyone can see the dev and prod directories. I need to re-visit this.... They can't modify/delete anything though. But I'd rather that they aren't navigable. Hi EV,
You’re right - everyone can see the dev and prod directories. I need to re-visit this…. They can’t modify/delete anything though. But I’d rather that they aren’t navigable.

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9925 ev Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:30:41 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9925 very helpful article :-) Question: with ref. to, quote: "Notice that everyone can see the “pub” and “www” directories, but only the “thornsoft” members (chris and brenda) can even SEE the dev and prod directories" To handle permissions by hand through SSH is a good idea, however how do you hide /dev & /prod dirs. for others users than chris & brenda? very helpful article :-)
Question:
with ref. to, quote: “Notice that everyone can see the “pub” and “www” directories, but only the “thornsoft” members (chris and brenda) can even SEE the dev and prod directories”

To handle permissions by hand through SSH is a good idea, however how do you hide /dev & /prod dirs. for others users than chris & brenda?

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9773 Rudy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:30:58 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9773 <p>Great article! I'm curious about a couple of things:</p> <p>1) How do you have this connected to your network? I am considering a NAS type unit, but want to use it with a Squeezebox...so I may want to tuck this into a closet or basement and use a wireless network card.</p> <p>2) Any recommendations for a low-power-consuming system? I notice (elsewhere) that you mentioned it consumed only about 50 watts. I do not want this to run 24/7, but I also don't want it to soak up a lot of power.</p> <strong>Admin Replies:</strong> <ital>It's connected via Cat5 Ethernet, but I see that there are provisions for wireless. I plan on having it running 24/7 except when we're on vacation, so I look at it as "50 watts is a lot better than 250 watts". FreeNAS has the ability for cron jobs, so you could have it shut down itself, or you could script it from another station, or just power off manually from the console or the WWW admin page. </ital> Great article! I’m curious about a couple of things:

1) How do you have this connected to your network? I am considering a NAS type unit, but want to use it with a Squeezebox…so I may want to tuck this into a closet or basement and use a wireless network card.

2) Any recommendations for a low-power-consuming system? I notice (elsewhere) that you mentioned it consumed only about 50 watts. I do not want this to run 24/7, but I also don’t want it to soak up a lot of power.

Admin Replies: It’s connected via Cat5 Ethernet, but I see that there are provisions for wireless. I plan on having it running 24/7 except when we’re on vacation, so I look at it as “50 watts is a lot better than 250 watts”. FreeNAS has the ability for cron jobs, so you could have it shut down itself, or you could script it from another station, or just power off manually from the console or the WWW admin page.

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9681 admin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:13:22 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9681 Power Usage: Amazingly, this box only draws 50 watts when (mostly) idle, and 70 watts during heavy use. Disk temps run about 31c on the seagate 750s, but that's with a 90mm fan blowing directly on them (but that counts towards the power usage). I'm VERY happy. Once I get the XP server shut down, I should have about an hour of runtime on the UPS. Which is good, as FreeNAS doesn't have the APCUPSD demon (UPS monitoring/shutdown). Power Usage: Amazingly, this box only draws 50 watts when (mostly) idle, and 70 watts during heavy use. Disk temps run about 31c on the seagate 750s, but that’s with a 90mm fan blowing directly on them (but that counts towards the power usage). I’m VERY happy. Once I get the XP server shut down, I should have about an hour of runtime on the UPS. Which is good, as FreeNAS doesn’t have the APCUPSD demon (UPS monitoring/shutdown).

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9680 admin Mon, 31 Mar 2008 04:09:09 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9680 Update: Software Mirroring is going well, and we're moved onto the new server. I added another drive, a 200GB IDE that will be used for occasionally backing up important files from the miror set, so that I have another copy. I'll use the local rsync feature of FreeNAS to sync certain directories to the backup disk. Update: Software Mirroring is going well, and we’re moved onto the new server. I added another drive, a 200GB IDE that will be used for occasionally backing up important files from the miror set, so that I have another copy. I’ll use the local rsync feature of FreeNAS to sync certain directories to the backup disk.

]]> FreeNas with RoseWill RC-212 RAID Mirror http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9613 admin Sat, 29 Mar 2008 03:34:49 +0000 http://www.clipboardextender.com/off-topic/my-freenas-experience#comment-9613 Update: I have switched to software RAID mirroring. I followed the writeup in the wiki, and it seems to be working. Why do this??? I powered off one of the disks to see how the system would tolerate it. The raid controller failed (in my opinion) to keep the system running. The volume was inaccessible, and a reboot was required. In the bootup, the raid intervened and allowed me to continue to boot with the crippled mirror and it worked... But then I rebooted and tried to add the disk back in. The Raid wanted to sync it back up... sounded good, right? RED SCREEN. It flashed "duplicating..." for a second, then RED SCREEN. I tried several times. I couldn't get it to add the other disk back in. I gave up. The software mirroring seems to work, but I'll test more before relying on this in production. One benefit of software raid is that the S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring works now. It can, for example, show me the disk temperature of each drive, in the web panel. Update: I have switched to software RAID mirroring. I followed the writeup in the wiki, and it seems to be working. Why do this??? I powered off one of the disks to see how the system would tolerate it. The raid controller failed (in my opinion) to keep the system running. The volume was inaccessible, and a reboot was required. In the bootup, the raid intervened and allowed me to continue to boot with the crippled mirror and it worked… But then I rebooted and tried to add the disk back in. The Raid wanted to sync it back up… sounded good, right? RED SCREEN. It flashed “duplicating…” for a second, then RED SCREEN. I tried several times. I couldn’t get it to add the other disk back in. I gave up. The software mirroring seems to work, but I’ll test more before relying on this in production. One benefit of software raid is that the S.M.A.R.T. disk monitoring works now. It can, for example, show me the disk temperature of each drive, in the web panel.

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