TuxRunner

Wow, did I have a heck of a time nailing down a solution to get my Drobo to work in Linux and still meet all my requirements.  It previously was on a Windows 2003 server, but since I’m a Unix guy now…that doesn’t make sense anymore.  So I wanted to move it over to Linux, but I had to have a few conditions met:

1. The file system format had to be something that I could easily still move to a Windows box, and plug it in and it would work.  This is just in case my Linux box blows up, and the wife still needs access to the files on her Vista PC.  That limits me to FAT32 nd NTFS.
2. The front lights still need to work.  I’ve read that with EXT3 on the Drobo, it can’t properly evaluate drivespace use.  If you put data on, and the use lights go up…then you delete, the lights don’t change.
3. It needed to be able to be mounted into the filesystem and used with Samba without much difficulty.

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