Ewan Grantham wrote: > I know, this is borderline, but figure this is the group of folks who > will know. I do a lot of audio and video stuff for myself and my > family. I also have a rather unusual networking setup. Long story > short, when I try to run Linux as my primary OS, I usually end up > reinstalling Windows after a couple weeks because there are still > holes in what I can do. That isn't the fault of Linux as much as folks > who write device drivers or have video codecs that require DirectShow. > > However, the big thing I really miss from Linux that keeps me trying > to find a way to convert is the support for Software RAID 5. > > It occured to me yesterday that perhaps the trick would be to use QEMU > to run Knoppix or Damn Small Linux under Windows, and then setup a > RAID 5 array under one of those. Not to mention then having access to > Linux for some other fun stuff. > > I'm not sure if that's even possible, and if it is, how much trouble I > would have moving files around to and from the RAID array if it's > setup that way. So I'm wondering if anyone on the list has ever tried > this? Not too much trouble, you should be able to just setup Samba in the Knoppix/DSL and access your files through QEMU's network emulation. It will be damn slow, however :-). Perhaps buy a NAS device like Linksys NSLU2? It's cheap and has low power consumption - but you'll need to hack it to add disks (via USB). http://peter.korsgaard.com/articles/debian-nslu2.php or http://www.tomsnetworking.com/Sections-article85-page3.php explains how to get into the Linux guts of the box. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
