raid 5 with freenas

[dalekphalm]

8 hours ago, Ethocreeper said:

@dalekphalm, @Mikensan and @Jarsky

i love openmediavault

2 problems

1. can i format my raid 5 as ntfs so windows pcs can read it
2. i am running it as a vm. can i make that computer that is running the vm to see it a local drive. and if i connect it as a network drive will it be bottlenecked by 1gbps to the server that runs the vm?

 

thanks for the help

1. Since OMV is based on Linux, probably not - no. I have heard there are some NTFS plugins for Linux, but I don't believe they work very well anyway. The point of OMV is that it's a NAS software. You share the folders you want via SMB (Or Samba or NFS or whatever), and then a Windows Machine can connect to that shared folder. File System literally doesn't matter, since you're using industry standard Network File Protocols that both Linux and Windows understand to read/write the files.

2. You can make the drive "appear" as local using iSCSI, but I cannot say whether that will improve speeds beyond 1Gbps or not - iSCSI is based off of IP Addresses, so it really depends on whether the Virtual Switch being used by your Hypervisor will operate at disk speeds or will be artificially limited to a standard network link speed such as Gigabit.

 

Honestly I would not be too concerned with link speed - what are you doing on the Hypervisor that needs a faster than Gigabit transfer speed?

 

Do you even want a NAS? If you're not intending on hosting files centrally and sharing them out to individual computers, then maybe you should just use Windows Storage Spaces on your regular Desktop PC?

[Jarsky]

Im not sure ntfs works with mdadm. You should create the mountpoint using the ext4 filesystem and then share it using SMB. 

 

https://forum.openmediavault.org/index.php/Thread/6807-Samba-Share-Types-in-OMV/

[Technomancer__]

4 hours ago, dalekphalm said:

1. Since OMV is based on Linux, probably not - no. I have heard there are some NTFS plugins for Linux, but I don't believe they work very well anyway. The point of OMV is that it's a NAS software. You share the folders you want via SMB (Or Samba or NFS or whatever), and then a Windows Machine can connect to that shared folder. File System literally doesn't matter, since you're using industry standard Network File Protocols that both Linux and Windows understand to read/write the files.

2. You can make the drive "appear" as local using iSCSI, but I cannot say whether that will improve speeds beyond 1Gbps or not - iSCSI is based off of IP Addresses, so it really depends on whether the Virtual Switch being used by your Hypervisor will operate at disk speeds or will be artificially limited to a standard network link speed such as Gigabit.

 

Honestly I would not be too concerned with link speed - what are you doing on the Hypervisor that needs a faster than Gigabit transfer speed?

 

Do you even want a NAS? If you're not intending on hosting files centrally and sharing them out to individual computers, then maybe you should just use Windows Storage Spaces on your regular Desktop PC?

 

its for an office. i will receive some data from their local server over the internet and transfer them to this server. and on this server i will run a service like owncloud to make users. each user will have its folder.

 

i cannot make this run on the main server for security reasons. (public website of freenas everyone can connect to it and see it. so if it gets hacked the main servers will be safe)

 

btw does much users does the free version support?