Making a NAS Server

[directhex]

the rocketraid is a terrible buy. don't expect to be able to dual-boot anyhthing

[directhex]

The highpoint supports opensource as well and 2003 . Had a look at arcea but my budget is too small for a 8 port one. im looking at a £700 budget for the whole thing and i need everything hehe.

edit: Forget this bit hehe

wrong.

highpoint do NOT, and will never, support open source

what is available are open-source non-raid drivers (reverse engineered by the community because highpoint don't), or closed-source binary drivers that must be compiled alongside your regular kernel and made to work from boot (which is SIGNIFICANTLY non-trivial, and something i've personally never succeeded with)

[Metier9]

http://www.highpoint-tech.com/USA/bios_rr2320.htm

either way im happy

[directhex]

assume i know what i'm talking about on topics like this

inside the "Open Source driver" package is a bunch of closed-source .o files (precompiled object files). they may or may not be compileable against a current kernel (e.g. the README file mentions 2.6.17 as the most recent, but 2.6.20 is current)

inside the "Linux Drivers" packages are packages for old kernels for old versions of distributions (e.g. the SUSE package is for non-security-updated kernels for SUSE up to 10.1 - 10.2 is current. imagine a driver that works only with Win2K SP3)

[aidanjt]

wrong.

highpoint do NOT, and will never, support open source

what is available are open-source non-raid drivers (reverse engineered by the community because highpoint don't), or closed-source binary drivers that must be compiled alongside your regular kernel and made to work from boot (which is SIGNIFICANTLY non-trivial, and something i've personally never succeeded with)

While I agree that the F/OSS notion of opensource and highpoints differ widely, the driver is *mostly* open where highpoint probably don't think they'll lose out on IP or what not. And at least they have a driver which can be patched to kernel sources and compiled in (unlike times past).

[Neo_VR]

Ive got a Linksys NSLU2 as my NAS... (bought for £40 from pcworld) Currently running half a tb but im going to add more soon..

The latest firmware also supports usb hubs, so you can add more than 2 drives.. plus with it running a Intel x-scale cpu... it can do other things too NSLU2-Linux

the above solution is worth checking out if your not after blazing access speeds... the slug manages about 2-6mb/s over the network..
but then mine is also running apache and mysql too

[directhex]

While I agree that the F/OSS notion of opensource and highpoints differ widely, the driver is *mostly* open where highpoint probably don't think they'll lose out on IP or what not. And at least they have a driver which can be patched to kernel sources and compiled in (unlike times past).

mostly open in what sense?

it's completely and utterly closed - like the ati driver, but with a significantly lower reputation for working

[Metier9]

Hopefully found a helpful source

Hell, if i dont get stuck in at the deep end i got bored quick

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache...lnk&cd=4&gl=uk

[aidanjt]

mostly open in what sense?

it's completely and utterly closed - like the ati driver, but with a significantly lower reputation for working

In the case of ATi, they have the whole driver in an object file with just a glue layer source code so it can be built as a module for custom kernels. The highpoint 'open' driver for that particular card has certain propriatory RAID elements (which goes to prove that the card isn't fully hardware raid) in object files to be linked with the rest of the interface kernel code, which can be patched to the kernel. I did take the time to look at the archive.