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Greatone123

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Hello all i've gotten to the point where I've gotten enough storage questions to post.

1. If I dual boot win7 and Linux Mint, is there a format I can make my storage drive so both OSs have full access to it? Read and write without issues.

2a. What storage server solution do you recommend for me? I've got 3 win7 PCs, 1 linux desktop, 2 linux servers. I would like something all 3 can back up to.

2b. Down the road I'd like to get into Hyper-v/virtualbox/esxi more in depth, can I use the same server to store the VM harddrives on? Rather then local storage?

I don't have a budget technically but its a the more it costs the longer ill have to save for it.
The question 2b is low priority. I need the back up solution. But #1 I plan on doing within next 2 months. Or hopefully sooner depending.





On a totally separate note. Not related at all.... can a xeon E3-1230 work in a H67 board? Cheapest way to get 8 threads I've seen but I don't want to get a server board I don't care about ECC ram or the other usual server features.
 
i'd think about running zfs(or btrfs in theory) on one of the linux servers, this allows for snapshotting and can be very usefull for vmware images I beleve. (this is hearsay though haven't done it myself)
use samba o export the data to window machines and nfs to get it to the linux machines..

this assumes you don't want the linux server to be dual boot though.

also ZFS allows you to add drives to the storage pool as you go on, so you can get started on the cheap, does SW raid on those drives etc.

p.s: the snapshotting can mean that each vm starts with the same image and makes changes to some files but only the changed files are copied to get that unique image.
it's also cool for incremental backups.

there is no kernel implantation of zfs for Linux yet but you can use zfs-fuse.
at my job we use one of the sun solutions with ZFS but it's also a user-space program and not a kernel space program.
look up ZFS on wikipedia and you can see what is supported for wich OS.
 
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