[Novalug] Welcome Back (PLEASE READ)

Jay Hart jhart@kevla.org
Sat Nov 4 14:58:23 EST 2006


> Jay,
>
> this looks like a nice product. Having said that, when I checked out the
> user documentation for version 0.65 I found that it contains the
> following caveats with respect to NTFS formatted
> Drives/Directories/Files.  As I think about it, it is not clear to me
> what value there is in having NTFS capabilities in a NAS if there is no
> way to write to such drives/directories. Perhaps additional NTFS support
> is planned for a future revision.

Umm, I think I used a UFS formatted drive. Not sure though about that. Whatever I used, I was able
to write a file and read the file back using W2k.

I used the two-disk install.

Jay
>
>>     NTFS formatted Storage drives will incorrectly identify
>>     sub-directories (sub-folders) as files
>>     when viewed across the share. When viewed via FTP, sub-directories
>>     are correctly displayed.
>>     (FreeBSD limitation)
>>     · NTFS drives are read-only at this time.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> John Holmblad
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> Jay Hart wrote:
>> To all:
>>
>> Recently I found this great little NAS (Network area storage) operating envirornment
>> called FreeNAS. Its based on FreeBSD, and the download size is 25MB. website: www.freenas.org
>>
>> I mention this because in about 30 minutes from the time of loading we could have a nice little
>> backup solution in place to possibly prevent a disk crash from taking the lists offline for
>> months.
>>
>> I would be happy to try and see what I could come up with for hardware (would need to be rack
>> mountable) that we could use. The server would not need to very fast, just good amount of disk
>> space.
>>
>> Is this something that seems like we could use?
>>
>> Jay Hart
>>
>>
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