Any utils worth installing a GUI on a server for?

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Thu Jun 25 05:57:33 UTC 2015


On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:09:56 -0600
jd1008 <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 06/24/2015 06:05 PM, Quartz wrote:
> >> Yes.
> >> If the storage on the server, then a gui tool
> >> to manage the storage (drive replacement,
> >> raid reconfiguration, drive additions .... etc.
> >> It could make such tasks a lot easier.
> >
> > Well, is there such a thing for zfs?
> >
> :)
> You said for server.
> A raid has nothing to do with the FS type,
> be it ext[N], NTFS, fat32, UFS, HFS+, ...etc.

	ZFS combines filesystem and storage management and is best used
directly on drives or partitions and not on top of a RAID controller or
other software RAID, so in this case the FS type does have a lot to do with
the storage management.

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Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve at sohara.org>


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