I have recently been building a NAS box to store all my pictures, documents etc. I have been trying Windows Home Server on the eva. While i was happy with its ability to make shares resilient to a drive failure by making a copy of every file be on a different drive I wasn't too happy with how it used the available space.
So after doing some reading and testing I setup an Ubuntu box and got zfs-fuse on (Google zfs and ubuntu for a good wiki guide I followed on how to do this). I was very impressed with how quickly I could setup a raid pool and with the ability to expand the space by replacing drives I in theory have a resilient, and expandable storage solution.
However when I was ssh'd into the box it kept hanging. I couldn't figure it out. I'm not all that familier with ubuntu and/or Linux in general to start in depth diagnostics. I thought it was something to do with the zfs-fuse so I installed opensolaris. However that was too bloated for what I needed. I thought it was because I had put on hardy and the guide said I should use intrepid. After installing that I still had the problem. But then I was using ssh from an external location into my home has and it was working fine. Why? Tech support days flashed back. Could it be MTU? A local ping of 1400 bytes worked. 1500 did not. A quick change to the ubuntu network settings and it's all singing.
My next step is to slowly replace the 4 120gb drives in the pool with 1tb drives. Nice!
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