Move contents of Jess’s 500gig (206gigs in content) drive to my old USB enclosure drive of 250 gigs (233 gigs usable)
Move all my RAID 5 content (553gigs) to Jess’s 500gig drive (452gig usable) and my old 160gig drive (about 140gig usable)
Then I can play with taking the raid set off line, and re-formatting the 4 drives and then copy the data back to the drives. I will deal with AuFS and FlexRAID after.
Found exactly what I was looking for here.
The driver combines a several mount points into the single one
Actually I think this may actually be better then the Drive Extender things…
Played with AuFS a little, and got it working on the laptop.
This is the mount command that worked:
#mount -t aufs -o dirs=/home/outsider:/tmp=ro none /mnt/aufs
Just need to get it working on the server now.
I am going to try to write something to give me equivalent features to WHS drive extender, to be used in linux (maybe later, even windows?)
But to start, I need to think things through:
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It looks like the current form on the TWMS site is attracting a lot of spam.
I need to add some sort of CAPTCHA to prevent bots from sending messages. I just added a checkbox, which should slow messages down, but I will implement a random text image captcha as found here.
This should prove good enough, but I need time to implement it.
Come to think of it, I should probably refactor the portion of the page that generates the html code for the pop up boxes.
So it appears that nothing like the drive extender that WHS has, exists for linux. Discussion on AVSForums leads me to believe that.
Explanation on how WHS Drive Extender works.
So I have decided to write some code to accomplish something similar.
What are the needs:
– amalgamate a pool of partitions/folders and make them seem like one folder.
– when data is written to the pool, the software manages where the data is stored (what partition/folder in the pool)
Since everything is running from partitions/folders, FlexRAID can be applied to the same folders, to add a level of redundancy to the whole system (something WHS doesn’t have to my knowledge)
After doing some posting, and asking some questions, it looks like ZFS is what I am looking for.
Some links:
here.
AVSForum Post
The forum that I’ve asked all my openSuSE questions is no longer listed on the openSuSE website, and it’s always a pain to find it everytime I want to look up an old answer.
Have been looking at this for a while now.
I should give it a try one of these days.
Implement this.
With the above implementation should likely come a few extra types of classes of data.
The only problem with adding more types of data is that a different type of admin page needs to be written. Currently the admin page can edit the entire site, which is nice. I think the all encompassing design currently in use, is best, since it can be tailored to many different uses. Continue reading
I installed Binky’s 3.4 ROM today.
Comparing this install to the K’s Rom 1.31 Lite I had previously on the device, it looks better. More memory available for program and Storage.
Storage: Total 70.98MB, in use 3.07MB, Free 67.91. Program:Total: 48.68, In use: 21.48, Free: 27.2MB.
After installing Point UI 1.51a,
Storage: Total 70.98MB, in use 5.28MB, Free 65.70. Program:Total: 48.68, In use: 24.52, Free: 24.16MB.
So after PointUI installed and running, I am only loosing 3MB. Much better then the 6MB lost in my last setup.
So far, both PointUI (with the PointUI optimized font rendering on) is much much faster. Also (I guess due to WM6.1) applications take less time to launch.
Overall, certainly an improvement.