Assuming a completely blank slate of hardware and software what would folks consider "best" use for a homebrew NAS?
I'm definitely after using windows which without some creative virtual machine usage (where I have a unix VM running an "ideal" file system as a scsi target of a windows VM running the SCSI initiator which then shares the SAN disk as NAS or other such sillyness) probably restricts my options quite a bit.
Is there anything with journaling support that's worth running in windows?
I'd ideally be using ZFS/JFS/XFS/Ext4 in linux but I'd really like to be able to tap windows 8+/2013+ ability to team network interfaces properly so I'm not stuck with only gigabit speeds. Is there any branch of Samba that's able to talk SMB 3 like windows can yet? (Seems there's an SMB 3 based version that can do awesomesauce speeds on fatter single pipes but I can't find talk of any able to do the interface bonding trickery).
I'm well aware I'm asking a hell of a lot
Would I be better off just throwing hardware at it? I have a perc 5/i so can happily raid 5 up to 8 drives. Would this and being fairly anal about my backups be a more realistic approach and just live with NTFS's inadequacies?
I'm definitely after using windows which without some creative virtual machine usage (where I have a unix VM running an "ideal" file system as a scsi target of a windows VM running the SCSI initiator which then shares the SAN disk as NAS or other such sillyness) probably restricts my options quite a bit.
Is there anything with journaling support that's worth running in windows?
I'd ideally be using ZFS/JFS/XFS/Ext4 in linux but I'd really like to be able to tap windows 8+/2013+ ability to team network interfaces properly so I'm not stuck with only gigabit speeds. Is there any branch of Samba that's able to talk SMB 3 like windows can yet? (Seems there's an SMB 3 based version that can do awesomesauce speeds on fatter single pipes but I can't find talk of any able to do the interface bonding trickery).
I'm well aware I'm asking a hell of a lot
Would I be better off just throwing hardware at it? I have a perc 5/i so can happily raid 5 up to 8 drives. Would this and being fairly anal about my backups be a more realistic approach and just live with NTFS's inadequacies?
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