NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hi,
I use NASlite 2.0.6 CD.
I was wondering if NASlite will get updated no more. It's almost a your ago! (for the CD version). It a bit starts to look like a dead born child (Dutch expression don't know if u understand). Don't get me wrong, i like the product a lot but it starts to be a little old in terms of supported hardware, energy savings etc.

In the States the expression is "a stillborn child", but I'm not sure the analogy fits since NASLite-2 does what it's supposed to do rather well. The NASLite-2 core is scheduled for another update in the very near future, so expect a NASLite-2 v2.07 in the following weeks.

The new NASlite core that will be based on Linux 2.6.X is the one that will support new hardware and offer much advanced ACPI capabilities, etc. That however is still pending development.

Ohh wee! Any information on what hardware to expect support for? (ie what 2.6.x kernel are you going to use)

The prototype currently uses 2.6.24 but our intent is to use the latest as made available.

Wonderful news Time to purchase an areca controller then

Any chance that there will be support for any FC-AL cards? I have a number of arrays and an external FC-AL RAID engine and would love to be able to use NL to export the volumes.

Mike

I know that both LSI and Qlogic have Linux drivers for allot of their cards, the real question is if there will be a way to include a driver for them like you can for windows on the load of the OS?

Mike

Afaik there will be no support for additional drivers but the ones included in the kernel. Check wether your card has support in 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 (still in RC5) and keep your fingers crossed

From something said here earlier, it would appear that 2.6.xx will fully utilise the capabilities of poly-core CPU's !

Any expected ETA on 2.07 (other than the entirely reasonable "when it has passed stability testing and is ready")?

v2.07 will not include a 2.6 kernel, just some general fixes.

Tentatively, we're looking at releasing a version upgrade that would be NASLite-2 v2.6, which would include a 2.6 linux kernel, and possibly a ajax web gui for full configuration.
There's no ETA on any of this, possibly before the end of the year. It's still in the development stage so anything can be changed or dropped.



-Ralph

I hope the update will solve my two annoyances.
1-"Server massage" OFF SWITCH (sins i never had this with NASlite 1 I hope it's not to hard to make it go away, cause its Super annoying in os-x Leopard, specially with six drives in the NASlite box)

2-Speed dropouts (The lots talked about 5sec 40BM/sec then 5sec 0MB/sec thing)

Not on my top priority list but would be COOL! list are.

1-Spotlight indexing.

2-Timemachine compatibilety.

I am seeing this but did not know it was a known issue. Can you point me at the thread(s) dicussing this?

Thanks.

In the admin, change the status update interval to 1 hour and see if that makes a difference. I've found that the the default 1 minute status update can slow things down on large transfers. I think it has to do with buffers but not sure.

I am not having this issue with small or large transfers. It just flies along at around 30MB on average with nary a hitch. Did the change in update intervals improve your overall transfer rates?

Mike