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Really, editing the hosts file takes about 2 seconds and has worked flawlessly for me for years. As a note, I know next to nothing about *NIX (and the underpinnings of my Mac) and even I can do it.

Gary, I'm still in the process of getting rid of the last of the slowest drives, so I'll wait to make a final assessment. I'm using the "tunables" script to get an idea of speed without running a full parity check. I agree that, for the most part, the parity check is an overnight thing that doesn't really affect usage of the array. However, anything that I can do to increase the efficiency is a good thing. When I'm done fully re-tweaking the array structure I will definitely hit you up for some help in getting better speed. Also, I want to say that your posts (along with Joe L and many others) have been a fantastic help in teaching me more about my system. Thanks to all of you who take the time to post thoughtful, well written, educational posts in this forum.

Thanks for all the info. One of the reasons I replaced the drive, and rebuilt, was to try to get rid of some of the drives with small (375GB) platters. I was hoping that doing so would speed up my parity check times. Doing so hasn't really changed the parity speed, so I thought I'd just expand the array with the leftover drives.

So, quick question for the guru's. I have replaced a couple of drives in my system recently, not from disk problems, but to add larger drives to my parity and array. So, I have the replaced drives left over. Do these need to be pre-cleared again, or is there a shortcut procedure to get them back into the array for more storage. I think the answer is that the parity needs to be pre-cleared, but I'm not sure about old data disks. I have never had problems with these drives, so I would prefer not to stress them unnecessarily with another pre-clear. If it needs to be done then I will. Thanks.

There is a button on one of the tabs, the last one, I think, for updating the GUI.

I believe that P+Q parity has been on the roadmap for some time. Your guess is as good as anyone's as to when it will be implemented. My guess, v 6.0.

4.7 to 5.0 upgrader here. Couldn't have been easier. Parity check seems marginally slower. Finally replaced my old parity disk with a 3TB one. Now to add a few more TB to the array. I like the new GUI. All-in-all Tom did a fantastic job, thanks. Bring on the plug-in manager!!

Well, I should have known it would be released yesterday, as it was my birthday. What a great present! Thank you, Tom, for all your hard work. I've had a few 3TB drives burning a hole in my pocket (so to speak) and I'm getting very low on space, so just in time. Now, I kind of wish I wasnt going away for the holiday so I could get it installed :'(

You buy a pro license.

Wasn't Tom #2 supposed to help out with that? Haven't seen/heard much of him since shortly after his announcement. This right here is the biggest problem. Every time the release schedule comes up, the heart of the problem is lack of communication. We could shut down this endless cycle with some forthright status updates. This is not only a problem on this site, MANY web vendors have the exact same issue. So, where is Tom #2 to throw us a bone??

NOT buried in another thread, that is basically an ad for the new server, but rather in BIG RED LETTERS on the front page. Welcome, Tom #2, hopefully your presence will allow the info to flow.

For my 4220 build, I did get a 120mm fan plate, which I have yet to install. The 2 80mm fans on the back of the case were the real culprits (in my case) for horrible noise. After switching them out I haven't really felt the need to make it more quiet.

If you are able to disconnect the hard drive in the mac prior to testing, I'm fairly sure there is no way you could mess up anything by trying. If you leave the hard drive attached, it should still be ok as long as you don't assign any drives. You should do it, just to satisfy the internet's curiosity. That's what I thought last weekend when I tried installing Mint Linux so I could access resierfs that way. I had a triple boot Mac for about 5 minutes, then realized that there was no way to delete the Linux partition and GRUB had overtaken my Boot Camp partition so OS X wouldnt touch it. At the same time my windows install was borked enough to require a full wipe and reinstall. Needless to say it took MANY hours (days) to recover from that little fiasco.

In order to allow booting from USB you need to install an EFI bootloader or EFI manager). rEFInd is just the ticket, or it's predecessor rEFIt. It will present you with a system picker when you reboot your Mac. I never had great luck getting it to run guest OSes (exception below) off of CD/DVD, and didn't try USB, however. YMMV. I do use it to boot between OS X (a couple of versions) and Windows (installed with Boot Camp), and it did work with Mint Linux 14.1 Live CD.

That's the problem, there are no PCs. I admit I've never tried to boot my MacPro using UnRAID from a USB drive, but I can tell you I'm not optimistic.

Thanks for the input. I'm going to try a live CD to see if there's a way to get access - I'm a bit worried that the drive dock I would use to access the drives would not be supported, and getting drivers that work with a live CD would be difficult to implement. . Also, I'm about to upgrade my bootcamp install to Win7 and it seems that there is a bit more reiserFS support available. All I really want to be able to do is get at the data on the disks in case of a an UnRAID meltdown, or server hardware issue.

Yes it's an Intel Mac (MacPro 1,1). I probably have a copy of VMWare or Parallels around somwhere, but I'm dreading the process of getting it up and running. Probably unfounded dread, but there it is. I guess I just need to cowboy up and git 'r done. Mint? I assume is a flavor of Linux distro. I'll check into it. Thanks for the tip. Maybe an atetmpt at getting a "live' disk running will be easier in the long run. It's a shame that FUSE died for Mac OS X. Seems like it is basic funtionality that would be useful in many ways, and someone surely would have hacked a reiserfs driver for it.

Yah, I've seen those steps while trying to figure this out. Problem is I have no experience with VirtualBox, Ubuntu, or the like. I guess I could dive in and hope for the best, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Sorta beginning to regret the reiserfs choice now. MAybe there will be a way to change the fs to something that isn't dead in the future.

Do any Mac users out there have a method of accessing ReiserFS volumes outside of UnRAID? One thing that drew me to UnRAID was the possibility of accessing my files, from a drive dock or somesuch, in the event that UnRAID got buggered up. This seems to be an impossibility (at least to me). All the methods I have seen are ages old and require knowledge of FUSE usage that escape me. Currently, I am still on 4.7, as there are some problems that are just too scary for me to tke the leap to 5.0 beta. NFS problems are the biggie, as I use this almost exclusively. My fear is that I won't be able to access the data on my drives without UnRAID in the future. People seem to have luck using Linux Live disks to access reiserFS drives. This, seems beyond my abilities. If there is a well written easy to understand guide to doing this I would greatly appreciate being pointed int he right direction, as most I have seen seem difficult to implement. I'm sure this is just trepidation on my part, but i would love to hear if there is an easy way to access the reiserFS file system on a Mac. TL;DR: how do I mount a reiserFS disk on MAc OS X 10.6.8? Thanks for your indulgence.

You touch my ding ding dong!

Should have stated up front that I am still on Snow Leopard, as Lion and Mountain Lion made one of my 'puters useless.

Well on my Mac, SMB/CIFS just sucks. NFS is much faster and much more stable. One super irritating feature is that limited characters available for file naming lead to nonsense names when browsing via SMB, NFS does not have this limitation. When using SMB the finder oftentimes just locks up when you are accessing a few different disks, sometimes requiring restarting the finder or possibly a complete reboot. Fragmented files are also possible if you are performing a copy operation. I assume this is some limitation of OS X implementation of SMB, but I am forced to deal with it. Maybe some other Mac users will comment. TLDR; NFS is an important feature.

Well, you may ask, but it might be better to start your own thread, rather than thread jack this one. The answer above, editing the hosts file, works perfectly for the OPs question. You will have to copy the file to a new location to do the editing, and authenticate when you try to copy it back, but UnMenu should jump from page to page without issue.

Site got "hacked" again. Here's what's happening. The hacker is somehow gaining access to the "public_html" directory and they do this: - replace .htaccess with zero-length .htaccess - upload an image called 'sejeal.jpg'. You can google it to see what it looks like. - upload a file called 'php.class.php' to public_html/tmp. This file has some binary info at the beginning followed by some php which looks like it implements a file uploader of some kind. I think once these files are in place the hacker can access /tmp/php.class.php and use that to upload stuff. When this first happened last week I immediate changed all the passwords (amazing how many there are). But I guess there must be a vulnerability somewhere. Here's a tiny bit of info http://www.cyberwarnews.info/tag/sejeal/ Same guy did it again today.

Do you know if that is the most recent version that works with Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.? I had to downgrade from ML to SL. Lion, and above, make my MacBookPro unuseable (WORST..OS..EVER). I asked on their forum a few days ago, but no one seems to be willing to answer.