I'm trying to figure out the best way to setup a home file server. I have a 700MHz Celeron with 512MB RAM (maxed out), a gigabit network adapter and 1.5TB hard drive along with a few smaller ones. Currently it is set up with OpenBSD and samba. The 1.5 TB hard drive is partitioned in three equal partition so I have a chance to pass the fsck if ever needed. This setup works well, except that I have to partition the drive into "smaller" partitions. I really would like not to be bound by the partition size restriction. But of course I would also like to be able to reboot the server and access the data after a power failure or such. And read-only mode isn't an option either.
Thanks to great documentation of OpenBSD (http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#LargeDrive) I know that I'm out of luck with default file system (FFS) on OpenBSD. What I'm not sure about is if a different file system on OpenBSD could alleviate the memory issue. Also, would I encounter the same memory requirements for fsck with other operating systems such as the FreeNAS (FreeBSD)? -- Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser
