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<blockquote data-quote="Rexxars" data-source="post: 226880" data-attributes="member: 60718"><p>I have been running a JBOD setup using FreeNAS as the OS, 13 disks in one big array. It served me well until I had to expand past 2TB, the tools available to expand the filesystem didn't understand that many sectors and so I decided to try and find a more robust solution.</p><p></p><p>So I'm now running Openfiler with 8x 500GB disks in a RAID5 setup. On top of that I've got LVM and ReiserFS as the OS. I use Samba to share the files and it works pretty nicely. 30-35MB/s and lets me have access to all 3TB of storage. The setup SHOULD also allow me to expand (by using mdadm to grow the raid array), although it does take ages every time you expand - but I can live with that <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p>I suppose you could create a new RAID5 array if you've got enough new disks for that and use LVM to expand the volume onto both arrays, then grow the filesystem.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rexxars, post: 226880, member: 60718"] I have been running a JBOD setup using FreeNAS as the OS, 13 disks in one big array. It served me well until I had to expand past 2TB, the tools available to expand the filesystem didn't understand that many sectors and so I decided to try and find a more robust solution. So I'm now running Openfiler with 8x 500GB disks in a RAID5 setup. On top of that I've got LVM and ReiserFS as the OS. I use Samba to share the files and it works pretty nicely. 30-35MB/s and lets me have access to all 3TB of storage. The setup SHOULD also allow me to expand (by using mdadm to grow the raid array), although it does take ages every time you expand - but I can live with that ;) I suppose you could create a new RAID5 array if you've got enough new disks for that and use LVM to expand the volume onto both arrays, then grow the filesystem. [/QUOTE]
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