In <[🔎] 727247.1222.qm@web65713.mail.ac4.yahoo.com>, Phillipus Gunawan wrote: >My friend told me about Home Server, and when I have a read about it, wow >The only feature that interest me is "Drive Extender" > >(taken from Windows Home Server Technical Brief - Drive Extender.docx) >".... >As you add more hard >drives to your home server, they are treated as a single large pool of >available storage space. You no longer need to deal with drive letters (such > as E:, F:, and G: ) because you can add more hard drives." >.... So far, sounds like UNIX in general or LVM in specific. >.... >Windows Home Server Drive Extender is different than and more powerful than > a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) in several ways: > >• You can use any hard drive, any time. You are not restricted to adding > more hard drives of the same type and size. When you want to grow your home > server storage, you can buy and add any hard drive you like. • Internal > and external hard drives can be used to grow your storage. No space in your > home computer case? No problem—plug in one or more hard drives of your > choice. • Drive removal is easy. After you have had your home server for > awhile, you may want to remove older, smaller hard drives and add new, > larger hard drives so that you can store more files. ...." Well, ZFS might handle this, but I don't know of any other tools of Linux that handle this nearly as well or transparently. I have heard of the Drobo NASes that do something very similar, and was instantly interested in implementing something similar in Linux (device mapper + mdadm is certainly capable) but haven't found time. >".... >The Windows Home Server Console enables you to configure the server storage > and shared folders on your home server. The Server Storage tab allows you > to view, add, and remove hard drives on your home server. You can see the > status of your server storage, and attempt to repair hard drives that show > a status of Unhealthy. You can also see a graphical representation of the > total disk-space usage on your home server. ..." Even with something like the Drobo, I don't know of an application (web or otherwise) that lets you have fine-grained control like this. The Drobo does have some web interface, but I believe it assumed any drive in the enclosure is supposed to be part of the storage pool. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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