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PostPosted: Sat Nov 01, 2008 2:41 pm 
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Sorry for posting here, but there doesn't seem to a version agnostic section... These are general questions I have about NASLite-2 that don't seem to be covered by the current manual:

1. What about fragmentation? Can de-fragging be implemented? Can it de-fragging be scheduled? Or does ext-3 make this completely unnecessary?
2. What about sleeping drives when not in use? On a home server, there will be times when the NAS is not in use, but would need to be available on short notice.
3. I assume AFP is fully implemented? There's no mention of it in the downloadable manual.

I also have some ideas that struck me while researching NASLite:

1. Given that disks could sleep, it would be useful to target data types to specific disks, in order to balance the sleep/awake status; for example storing static data like encyclopedic content or disk images that are rarely used would be on a disk that mostly sleeps.
2. The disk checking seems to be a problem for many. Can't disk checking be an interrupt/resume process and couldn't an extra disk be used as a scratch disk so that data could be copied in sections to it, making data always available despite an in-process check?
3. In principle, it should be possible to prevent disk checking from happening within certain times of the day, or even user interrupted at any time. This last seems to have proven to be quite an inconvenience.
4. Given enough space, it could also be possible to automatically backup the data of a disk that fails checking onto the other disks of the system (given enough space is available). Maybe the aforementioned scratch disk can be used for this. A log could be kept for re-integrating the data to a new disk.Thanks!

Thanks for developing this handy system.


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PostPosted: Mon Nov 10, 2008 3:26 pm 
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with the filesystem that is used. I am about 80% sure you do not need to do any kind of fragmenting because of how it writes to the drive. unlike NTFS in windows, Ext3 only writes to an empty block of data that is large enough to fit the entire write. AFP is implemented but I am not that familiar with it so I cant go into detail.


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