Nice CD server. Pretty CD server. Documentation is a little sparse though.
In order to properly share a CD image via NFS from the CD server, you have to have the Mirror device finish "building". It takes over a day for the full RAID 5 of the four 180 Gb drives to finish building. Instead, I tested it with a single drive as a Mirror device, copied in a CD image, and it shares out to PAX without any problems.
I'm going to make some more tweaks, such as setting email drop locations and a few other things that require a reboot, and tell it to make the full RAID 5 mirror set. Then I'll let it sit for the weekend, and maybe it'll be happy by Monday.
"Ready for use in less than three minutes." My foot.
Oh, and is anyone else confused by this jumbling of "Mirror device" and "RAID"? The "Mirror device" is for mirroring the CD image onto the hard drive. It has nothing to do with RAID, except that the four hard drives are (well, will be) configured as a RAID set. Jeez.
Posted by Rowan Littell at February 20, 2003 03:00 PM, updated 08:45 AM March 04, 2003