From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Molle Bestefich Subject: Re: Software RAID on Windows using Embedded Linux? Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2005 16:56:22 +0200 Message-ID: <62b0912f050724075638c18d91@mail.gmail.com> References: <6d5bedd8050724070995073e1@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: Molle Bestefich Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <6d5bedd8050724070995073e1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ewan Grantham Cc: Linux RAID Mailing List List-Id: linux-raid.ids 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.