I had another thread posted for a while:

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=15180.0

 

It doesn't look there anyone knows how to do this if it's feasible at all, and I cant find anything in my searching, so I'm looking at plan B now.

 

Is there any reason not to put a USB Thumb drive into the array?  I'm assuming you can do this since you can use a externally mounted mechanical drive via USB (I haven't tried yet). 

 

Something feels odd about putting a 16 GB thumb drive in an array loaded with 1 and 2 TB drives.  I know it will slow down my write times to that thumb drive, but will it slow down write times to the rest of the array since it will be involved in the parity calc?  I'm not sure I want to pull that below the 35 MB/sec write time  I get currently.  The thumb drive is a patriot and should bet read times in the 35 range, but write times are 11 ish.

 

Once it's in the array, I should be able to have an NFS and SMB share running at the same time right?  Is anyone using NFS?  Are there any good instructions on making this work?  I haven't gone down this road yet. 

 

The real constraints here are:

1. I dont want the drive holding this data to "sleep" IE pretty instant access, so I'm looking for a SS media. 

2. I really don't want to take up one of my last 3 slots with a small SSD so I'm looking for an external solution. 

 

I do have an un-used PCI ESATA card, so worst case I may look for a small SSD that I can mount ESATA. and put that in the array.  That should not affect the write time to the array, right?

 

 

A USB device cannot be used as an array disk. ESATA can be used. NFS works well in version 4.7.

A USB device cannot be used as an array disk. ESATA can be used. NFS works well in version 4.7.

 

Thanks, guess this narrows the options down anyway.  I know what direction to go.

 

Any "how to's" out there on setting up SMB and NFS on the same share?  Is it just filling in the NFS blank on the share setup screen?

Fill in the box. Google "man NFS"

This opens to the world:

*(rw,insecure)

World read-only:

*(ro,insecure)