KVM for nfs and samba

[RobFantini]

Hello
I'm looking to set up a KVM for sharing files on our local network.

We have 20 users, 30GB of files, of which 50 files would change on average per day.

The KVM would be on highly available storage using drbd.

We'd like to be able to do snapshots within the KVM. It looks like btrfs would be a good choice for that.

Does anyone have a suggestion on which operating system to start using for tests?

thanks

 

[macday]

Hi,

I have also deployed many fileservers on proxmox. My suggestion is Debian Squeeze VM (all virtio) SerNet Samba Repository and a customised smb.conf.

I also tried BTRFS but it is far away from stable. For snapshots use LVM2 + XFS. IHMO it is the best combo.

cheers
macday

 

[RobFantini]

Hi,

I have also deployed many fileservers on proxmox. My suggestion is Debian Squeeze VM (all virtio) SerNet Samba Repository and a customised smb.conf.

I also tried BTRFS but it is far away from stable. For snapshots use LVM2 + XFS. IHMO it is the best combo.

thanks for quick the response!

Is there anything special you do to configure samba in smb.conf ?