Hey,

was wondering if UNRAID could read the RAID I made when I used OS X, disk 4x2 TB.

I get read/write in UBUNTU, but want something  more "Simple".

 

Thanks in advance

Simple answer:  No.

 

More complete answer:  UnRAID won't read it and let you access it via the Web GUI and/or the UnRAID shares.    But as UnRAID is built on a standard Linux distro (Slackware I believe), you MAY be able to read/write the array from the console -- just as with any other Linux install.

 

It would not, however, be any "simpler" than doing it with Ubuntu.

The access would effectively be completely "outside" of UnRAID.

 

Simple answer:  No.

 

More complete answer:  UnRAID won't read it and let you access it via the Web GUI and/or the UnRAID shares.    But as UnRAID is built on a standard Linux distro (Slackware I believe), you MAY be able to read/write the array from the console -- just as with any other Linux install.

 

It would not, however, be any "simpler" than doing it with Ubuntu.

The access would effectively be completely "outside" of UnRAID.

Better answer.  No.

unRAID has NONE of the normal RAID drivers.  They have been completely replaced by the unRAID "md" device.    unRAID will be unable to read ANY raid volume from OS X that uses any kind of striping across disks. 

Simple answer:  No.

 

More complete answer:  UnRAID won't read it and let you access it via the Web GUI and/or the UnRAID shares.    But as UnRAID is built on a standard Linux distro (Slackware I believe), you MAY be able to read/write the array from the console -- just as with any other Linux install.

 

It would not, however, be any "simpler" than doing it with Ubuntu.

The access would effectively be completely "outside" of UnRAID.

Better answer.  No.

unRAID has NONE of the normal RAID drivers.  They have been completely replaced by the unRAID "md" device.    unRAID will be unable to read ANY raid volume from OS X that uses any kind of striping across disks.

 

Thanks Joe.  Good to know.  That's of course why I said "MAY"      I'm not surprised, but as a total non-Linux guy I didn't really know for sure whether the rest of the standard Linux "stuff" was available "outside" of the UnRAID drivers.

 

Thanks for the answer.

 

Actually if ubuntu can read/write the OS/X RAID array, then that's probably the easiest way.

 

As mentioned before, the standard linux RAID subsystem has been totally replaced.

If it's a mirrored set of drives from OS/X unRAID "MAY" be about to mount the drive if the partition and filesystem layers are compiled into unRAID (unknown to me).

 

The only way to know is to try with a single drive that is formatted the same way as your others.

 

However, if ubuntu can read the OS/X array, it's probably easier to do it that way and use rsync across the network.

I gone with UBUNTU Server since as you guys say, its the easiest.

 

Thanks.