Initial configuration

[cjm51213]

Hi Folks,

I have a AS3204T v2 correctly installed and sitting on my LAN. I have four disks in it. I can monitor and change configuration with "http://...:8000".

During the opening dialog, I initialized the disk array as JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks), which I expected to expose each disk individually, but apparently they are all bound together under LVM, and I have a single volume, where I expected four filesystems.

• How do I initialize my NAS to serve four individual disks as four individual filesystems? Failing that, how do I partition the volume, so I can prevent one class of storage from consuming the entity of the volume?
• How to I name and "share" the storage so I can mount it remotely?

Thanks for the help,

Chris.

[cjm51213]

Hi Folks,

I have learned that JBOD is not what I want. I deleted that volume and I have successfully created four "single" volumes, one on each disk. That answers question one. Now, how do I export these filesystems so they are visible to clients?

Thanks for the help,

Chris.

[Nazar78]

Simply create separate shared folders on each volume from the ADM Access Control. Then enable the services you want to expose to the clients e.g. CIFS/NFS/AFP.

The question is do you really want to leave out redundancy (usually the main reason of getting a multi bay NAS) and use single disks?

so I can prevent one class of storage from consuming the entity of the volume?

If this is the reason you can always use quota management.

[cjm51213]

Hi Nazar,

Thanks for the help. You have answered my question.

You pose some excellent questions.

The question is do you really want to leave out redundancy (usually the main reason of getting a multi bay NAS) and use single disks?

Two of the disks are for backups, so they are already redundant by definition.

so I can prevent one class of storage from consuming the entity of the volume?

If this is the reason you can always use quota management.

In this case, the same user is doing all the backups, so putting quotas on that user will restrict storage for backups, without allowing me to configure which backups can consume how much.

Thanks for your help,

Chris.