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[LUG] NAS drive with RAID in Linux

 

Hi All,

A friend of mine has been looking into setting up a NAS drive for backup 
and network share of his files.  The ideal system would have two 500Gb 
drives in a RAID 1 configuration  It seems that the prebuilt NAS 
enclosures all use Linux and state the available formats are FAT32, EXT2 
and EXT3.  He does a lot of video work in raw AVI format, over the 4Gb 
limit for FAT32 (he's a Windows user) so he wouldn't be able to format 
it as FAT32.

1.  Would there be any problem with using an EXT3 (or 2) formatted drive 
on a NAS drive accessed by a Windows PC?  I'm thinking there wouldn't be 
as the enclosure's Linux firmware would handle all the data throughput 
and the enduser PC would just see a drive to read and write to, or is 
that complete cobblers?

2.  If (1) wouldn't work, is there any major issue with an NTFS drive 
being used in a NAS enclosure?

3.  He's also considering building a NAS server out of old bits and 
installing FreeNAS.  Any experience of this, pitfalls, idiosyncrasies?

Kind regards,

Julian

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