FlexRAID going commercial

[fpp]

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.

Nice job ! I posted a couple of remarks in the other thread.

I'm actually rather proud of myself, for once, as this time I went ahead and switched over without waiting for others to clear the trail beforehand, as I'd usually do :-)
Of course there was the little detail that my FlexRAid had expired... but above all I guess snapraid just feels approachable, straightforward and unintimidating... and no Java ! I hadn't done a configure/make/install in ages, it was fun :-)

I'm very happy with my setup now. Not least because it doesn't keep expiring. I also like the lean nature of the whole thing and the script I'm using to keep it all up to date just rocks.
Hopefully other people find my guide useful although I suspect the difficult part will be making a suitable config file. Mine is rather simple and works well. Perhaps it's down to the simplicity of my setup?

Decades in this industry taught me just two things :

- complexity for the customer is good for job security,

- but when *I* am the user, the simpler, the better :-)

... and my own config file is indeed even simpler than yours

EDIT: fpp, are you the chap who helped me with the sync script on the sourceForge forums? If so, thank you very much. That issue was causing me a real head-ache. I was heading down the wrong road trying to get to the bottom of the issue so thanks, if it was you, for solving it for me.

Ha, that is just too funny... I had forgotten that part, but I just checked back, and yes indeed it was us two :-)

Any forum dweller with 'fpp' in their handle has a fair chance of being me. That said, I'd also totally failed to connect the dots with the 'ian' in yours

Edit: and irritatingly, I still have the problem with spinning down the disks at the end of that script !
Works fine if there is nothing to sync, but totally erratic if syncs run, even for only a minute or so...

[Ian]

Edit: and irritatingly, I still have the problem with spinning down the disks at the end of that script !
Works fine if there is nothing to sync, but totally erratic if syncs run, even for only a minute or so...

Yeah, I wish I could help you on that one but it's outa my league I'm afraid. I manually force mine to spindown by issuing the /sbin/hdparm -S 241 ..... command.

Ian.