Questions tagged [openfiler]
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Is Windows Home Server compelling enough over free NAS OS's?
Has anyone out there run Windows Home Server for a while? I'm building a NAS box and I'm wondering if its features are compelling enough to warrant purchasing rather than the open source alternatives (ie, FreeNAS, OpenFiler)
Also share if you have…
hyperslug
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LVM vs /dev/md0 performance problem
I am trying to tune my NAS, running openfiler, and wondering why I'm getting relatively poor read performance from 4 WD RE3 drives in RAID 5.
When I run hdparm on the meta device I get the levels of performance I'd expect, drop to the volume and…
Dean Smith
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“FATAL: could not read from the boot medium! system halted”
I've a problem with Virtual Box, I cannot access to a CentOS virtual machine. I'm using a openfiler local server connected to my network.In addition, I can access to all the other LUN disks that I've created there. and before moving out from my old…
Pedro Teran
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Are there any alternatives to Openfiler that any good?
Does anyone know of any alternatives to Openfiler? I have tried FreeNAS a while ago an was not really impressed, has it changed very much in that last year?
Is there anything else I can look at?
AtomicPorkchop
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Using mixed disks and OpenFiler to create RAID storage
I need to improve my home storage to add some resilience.
I currently have four disks, as follows:
D0: 500Gb (System, Boot)
D1: 1Tb
D2: 500Gb
D3: 250Gb
There's a mix of partitions on there, so it's not JBOD, but data is pretty spread out and not…
Cylindric
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