[Nottingham] multi-terabyte raid arrays

[James Gibbon]

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:35:22 +0100
Jim Moore <jmthelostpacket at googlemail.com> wrote:

> As far as I know, and from 
> experience with that box, NAS appliances have to be formatted to FAT32 
> (either preformatted or in the case of RAID appliances, via the web 
> interface); formatting them to ext/x or any other exotic filesystem and 
> getting the firmware to recognise it is difficult at best. Best bet if 
> you want to use other filesystems on a NAS appliance is to build your own.
> 

Thanks for the reply Jim, but actually the box in question isn't a NAS
as far as I can tell - and I definitely don't want a NAS, just a RAID
unit to attach directly to an NFS server (using eg Firewire, eSATA, USB2).

Cheers
James