![]() So on windows we use volume shadow copies (previous versions) to get back recent files, then retrieve any older stuff from the equallogic sans we have via it's replication or snapshotting which is a longer process. The easiest thing would be to move to 2012 but since MS axed storage server, we need cals for everyone even just to access their files - £15 * 5000 isn't a small amount. I want to replace an aging windows 2008 storage server we are having issues with, either with another windows box (not keen because we have quite a few issues with performance and the OS being 2008 (not R2). So the 5000 people access their files via smb at the moment - a mixture of people's office documents, some server backups, windows roaming profiles and so on. The reasoning behind zfs / btrfs is that it's still rather hard, in my estimation, to extend the size of an lvm volume group - you can extend the partition of a physical disk underneath and create another partition, then add to the PV and VG, but it seems more tricky than even a basic resize of a native ext4 partition using fdisk, partprobe and resize2fs - but then I can't do snapshots! OR should I use btrfs? I'm not sure if it's still considered experimental, and that would make me nervous with 5000 people's files (work in a hospital). There's a thread here on acls :Īt the end, a patch has been submitted - does this mean that it should work, has anyone experience with it, and what samba vfs module should I use, and what zfs settings should I set (if using zfs). This works fine with the acl_xattr vfs module but I've read that it's not quite that straightforward if using, for example, ZFS. It needs to have volume shadow copies, which I believe can be easily done in either lvm, btrfs or zfs (maybe more), but also windows full acl support. I want to create a file server to serve a windows only environment based on Samba. I'm not sure if this is very ambitious or has already been done.
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