FlexRAID Wiki article update?

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FlexRAID Wiki article update?

Postby ogi010 » Sat Oct 13, 2012 11:20 pm

Hello everyone,

I just installed Amahi on Ubuntu Server 12.04. I'm pretty new to the command line interface, but with a bit of work, I got Amahi up and running, and got all my hard drives to mount as well.

I would like to be able to utilize FlexRAID, and figuring that not only do I not know what I'm doing, but I haven't been using greyhole extensively, so no time like the present to get FlexRAID up and running!

So after some googling, I came across the wiki article here: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/FlexRAID however following the initial steps, it's not working as it should.

First, the instruction to disable greyhole were not cooperating. I suspect that was because I had never configured it for anything, and never assigned any disks to shares or to greyhole...

By not cooperating, I mean when following this guide: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Greyhol ... e_Greyhole and typing in

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​chkconfig greyhole off
I get an error saying that greyhole: unknown service.

Anyway, I type service greyhole stop and all seems well. The web interface reflects that greyhole is indeed not running.

Only to the FlexRAID wiki article...

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root@ogi-server:/var/hda/web-apps/flexraid# ls FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin FlexRAIDWebUI_1.4 FlexRAIDWebUI_1.4.tar.gz html logs root@ogi-server:/var/hda/web-apps/flexraid# tar -xzpf FlexRAIDWebUI_1.4.tar.gz -d html tar: You may not specify more than one `-Acdtrux' or `--test-label' option Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information. root@ogi-server:/var/hda/web-apps/flexraid#
which is later followed up with:

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root@ogi-server:/var/hda/web-apps/flexraid# ./FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin bash: ./FlexRAID_Basic_Host_1.4_beta7.bin: No such file or directory root@ogi-server:/var/hda/web-apps/flexraid#
Anyway, I'm a noob when it comes to CLI stuff, and I've been drinking a bit, but if someone could point me in the right direction here, that would be greatly appreciated!

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Re: FlexRAID Wiki article update?

Postby bigfoot65 » Sun Oct 14, 2012 4:12 pm

You cannot use that command to turn off Greyhole in Ubuntu. You would need to disable it via /etc/init/greyhole.conf I believe.

As for following the wiki article for FlexRAID, it is a bit dated. I believe it was targeted for Fedora 14, not Ubuntu. We cannot be of much assistance, but maybe you can fine some Ubuntu guidance on the internet.
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Re: FlexRAID Wiki article update?

Postby ogi010 » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:07 pm

Thanks for the reply bigfoot,

I'll give it a go (installing FlexRAID on Ubuntu Server), however I'm still not sure what would be a good way of integrating it with Amahi.

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Re: FlexRAID Wiki article update?

Postby bigfoot65 » Tue Oct 16, 2012 3:48 pm

I would say only integrating it for the data, i.e. Greyhole drives. Other than that, not sure I see the point.
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