@fpp, I've now updated that page taking on board your points. What do you think of it now? I think it's just fine now, obviously :-) Seriously, I find the added explanations about parity/content/cron etc. make it a lot more newbie-friendly. It now has a lot of added value compared to the snapraid S...

Ian, there are two parts in that nice Howto that I would amend, especially for people new to this stuff, who will tend to follow it blindly (as I did for other parts :-). The first issue is your config file example with a copy of the 'content' file on each and every disk. You do mention that this is...

That how-to should be quite a lot shorter and simpler than the FlexRaid one :-) And it is: SnapRAID on Ubuntu Many thanks to you fpp for giving me a nudge in the direction of FlexRAID. :clap: Nice job ! I posted a couple of remarks in the other thread. I'm actually rather proud of myself, for once,...

As for me I think I will stress the "L" in "LTS" and milk some more usage from my 10.04, at least until things clear up :-)

Are you doing a fresh install or an upgrade ? I saw that in the past LTS versions could be updated from previous to next with good results, does this still hold true ?...

Good job, welcome to the club :-)

Luckily (or unluckily) my main desktop still runs windows so I could install .net on it and then give the GUI a try. I'll see how difficult it is to put together a how-to for configuring everything from the command line first. That how-to should be quite a lot shorter and simpler than the FlexRaid ...

I must admit it also terrified me when I saw that :-) From the discussions on the snapraid forum it seems there isn't much downside to it though, if any : seeking inside a large file isn't slower that finding a smaller file among many, and a block error won't make much difference either way... I hav...

Okay, time for an update (and not an April's fool, either :-). My beta of FlexRaid expired some time ago, and would stop working after the next reboot (and of course, along comes a kernel update :-). Meanwhile, the FlexRaid forum is still swamped with Windows users, and knee-deep in a quagmire of li...

Seeing as FlexRAID is an important part of Ian's Ubuntu home server Howto (and the one that finally got me going with my own, for which I am still grateful), this may be of interest to others : http://forum.flexraid.com/index.php/topic,502.0.html In a nutshell, Brahim (the author) has decided to tur...