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LessFS and Btrfs updates

Gerard — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:53:31 +0000

Interesting read on progress of the LessFS and Btrfs file systems: LessFS Pairs De-Duplication With Snappy Compression Btrfs Picks Up Snappy Compression Support LessFS and Btrfs updates is a post from: NAS, SANs and Storage Server Technology

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Setting up and confirguring an unRAID server

Gerard — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 13:51:56 +0000

Jim Metcalf has put together a 3-part series of articles reviewing unRAID. He goes through unRAID‘s installation and configuring. He also explains the tradeoffs and install details of unRAID storage alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS). unRAID Server – Part 1 The Journey to unRAID unRAID Server – Part 2 Installing unRAID unRAID Server – Part 3 Configuring [...]

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Btrfs brings “Pretty Beefy” changes in Linux 3.2

Gerard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:29:51 +0000

Linux kernel 3.2 will be out early next year, and included will be some exciting changes for the btrfs file system: “Among the noteworthy changes to Btrfs in Linux 3.2 compared to Linux 3.1 are many clean-ups and optimizations, scrubber improvements (including performance improvements), error handling fixes, and improved recovery support. There were also some [...]

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FreeNAS 0.7.2.8191 available

Gerard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 23:25:20 +0000

Though the main development of FreeNAS (8) has been taken over by iXsystems, there are still improving and updating the previous 0.7 series. This due to some “home user features” that are missing from the FreeNAS 8 series (torrent downloading, streaming media, small footprint etc). The latest release is FreeNAS 0.7.2.8191. Some of the changes [...]

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Create your own personal media cloud using OpenFiler

Gerard — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:25:04 +0000

If you follow the steps as described on extremetech.com you can set up your own personal cloud using free programs and an old PC. What you need is: An old PC A copy of Openfiler, an open Linux-based OS that focuses on creating a user- and group-based server system that works by creating network shares [...]

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NAS options: Pros and Cons of scale-out and scale-up

Gerard — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:14:19 +0000

TechTarget has an interesting article on the difference and pro’s vs cons of scale-out NAS and scale-up NAS systems. Scale-out NAS systems are used extensively by many of today’s leading organisations including Facebook, Myspace and the BBC iPlayer. Scale-out NAS is a storage architecture which is changing the way companies store gigabytes and petabytes of [...]

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Openmediavault 0.2.4.6 available

Gerard — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:37:09 +0000

Since the alpha launch of OpenMediaVault (OMV) 0.2 , Volker Theile has released three new versions and additional updates, with 0.2.4.6 being the latest version. Since OMV was written from the ground up, issues and problems are to be expected, but it’s good to see that Volker takes community feedback serious, fixing bugs found and implementing [...]

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Synology launches DiskStation DS212+ and DS212

Gerard — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:16:16 +0000

Synology has launched DiskStation DS212+ and DS212, two-bay NAS servers operated by the Synology’s DiskStation Manager (DSM). The DS212+ provides small and medium-sized businesses with high-performance business applications. Featuring an optimal price to performance ratio, the DS212 offers a myriad of applications at an affordable price tag, appealing to home and business workgroups. “With the launch [...]

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EON, a ZFS filesystem based storage system

Gerard — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:00:42 +0000

As far as I can remember, I have not linked and referred to the EON NAS storage system. When you’re in Europe and you hear EON, you may be thinking of the E-ON Energy supplier, but no, utility companies are not the subject of this website. EON stands for Embedded Operating system/Networking. EON is a ZFS (Zettabyte File [...]

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Synology DS-712+ NAS Server with Gigabit Link Aggregation

Gerard — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 21:28:43 +0000

Synology has announced the availability of DiskStation DS712+, a high performance and scalable 2-bay NAS server designed for small and medium businesses. “Synology DS712+ presents tremendous opportunity for SMB owners wishing to have the flexibility of scaling up to a larger storage solution from a smaller form factor. As small businesses grow, so does their [...]

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