[Tfug] home media server

[Eric M. Gearhart]

I setup Gentoo on it mostly just because I was in a "Gentoo phase" and I thought it was god's gift to man (don't worry guys I'm pretty distro-agnostic now). 

I have had to replace a failed drive, and basically all I did over ssh was 

watch cat /proc/mdstat 

to watch the drive get rebuilt. There was a bit of a learning curve at first, because I'd never done software RAID in Linux and I had to "get used to" where everything was (I didn't know about /proc/mdstat, for instance.) The HOWTO pretty much got me through it though. I didn't put the volumes on LVM when I built it, which is something I now kind of regret. Since building it I have read about LVM and how you can easily add space and all that - I wish I had read a little more about how far Linux storage has come along and wish I'd taken advantage of it. 

One thing I would say - if you use Linux clients and you use Samba, make sure you use CIFS and not SMBFS when you mount the Samba shares. SMBFS is deprecated and I have noticed that CIFS seems like it "just works" perfectly - connecting from Linux clients, OS X client or Windows clients. 

Eric 
http://nixwizard.net 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "johngalt1" <johngalt1 at uswest.net> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 5:53:06 PM (GMT-0700) America/Phoenix 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] home media server 

That's interesting. What distro? Have you had to replace a 
failed drive? 

If so, how did that work out? How easy? 

TIA