Posts by ryecoaaron

It might have something to do with the permissions or it might be the file types. What kind of files?

I have done it many times. It is easy if you configuration is simple. You don't have to recreate the filesystems, just shares, users, and plugin setups.

Sounds like a networking issue and/or client issue. My N40L hits gigabit peak and averages over 90 MB/s over SMB (raid 10 array, raid 1 array, and individual drives are all about the same). I have seen slow downs but it is usually something caused by the windows client. Most of the files I transfer are large movie files. I've never seen mine stall.

Is the server running out of memory? What model and OS are running on your Mac?

What version of omv-plugins and what version of OMV?

Unfortunately, not at the moment.

What is your goal? The RPi is fun to use for certain things but I'm not sure I would use it for a raid array that large. Also, the raid wouldn't give you any speed advantage (cpu limited) only redundancy.

It would be tough to have one universal box but I would think gentoo would be the best. It is easier to have multiple libc and gcc versions under one install.

Debian 12.04.1?? That is the current Ubuntu LTS version not Debian. OMV is Debian 6 (Squeeze). If you want the exact version, why not install Debian 6 (or OMV) in Virtualbox on your laptop and compile that way?

It will max out the 100 mb ethernet connection using samba. So, nfs should do the same. You would get a *lot* better performance if you put those drives in an N40L or similar.

Looks like an old plugin for a newer version of OMV.

If the user truly is missing, try this as root.

groupadd minidlna
useradd minidlna --home /var/lib/minidlna --shell /usr/sbin/nologin -g users,minidlna
mkdir /var/lib/minidlna
chown minidlna:minidlna /var/lib/minidlna

Looks to me like a run-once script. You run it and it makes the changes you need. So, download it, chmod +x, and execute it.

I have a 2.5" 250 GB WD Scorpio black in the optical bay of mine. Works great, fairly cheap, and no worries about flash memory. Just flash the bios with the hacked bios so it runs at full speed. You will need a 5.25 to 2.5 adapter, sata cable, and molex to sata power adapter as well.

Volker mentioned his reason for using apache somewhere but I couldn't find it. I would think something even lighter like thttpd or gatling would be better for the rpi.

Where did you find the script? Wasn't there some instructions there on where to put it?

And yes, the idea is the script should make a usb stick/cf card last longer by reducing the amount of writes to it.

I wouldn't trust that drive. Between raid losing it and the slow rebuild, just not worth it.

As for the cable, I never looked at it when I had my N40L apart. I know the connector on one end is a SFF-8087. I don't think it is that special of a cable connector-wise but the length probably is.

Is there anything in the system logs? Looks like the drive is failing and that is why it is rebuilding so slow. I may be wrong on this one but to check the cable, just swap with one of the other raid drives. mdadm should still be able find the drive even though it moved to the new location.

Couldn't you just use a third system to copy files from the network attached drives to a share on the new OMV system? Otherwise, you can always install a ftp client on the OMV box and transfer using command line.

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Ok, this leads me to a question, (I'm a OMV noob, so so forgive me if I missed this), when do you know if your system performace is suffering due to not having enought memory in your OMV?

When you aren't happy with the performance If you just use it as a file server, two gigs is more than enough for me.

There are actually two more sata ports on the mainboard of the N40L. You need normal sata cables for them. 18" is definitely long enough. You also need four pin molex to sata power adapters.

Unfortunately, the two ports on the motherboard run at ATA33 (slow) if you don't flash a modded bios (google n40l modded bios). I did this and it works great. I have a 2.5" drive for the boot drive in the cd-rom area connected to the mainboard and the four drive bays are RAID 10. You can easily get a 3.5" or multiple 2.5" drives in the cd-rom area.

Otherwise, you can add cards to the two slots. I have two low profile esata cards (one dual port and one single port) that connect to external multi-drive enclosures (one eight bay and one four bay).