spammy Posted April 10, 2016 Share #1 Posted April 10, 2016 I find that I only really use the SHR feature of synology - is is possible to extract this functionality to a generic Linux install? I believe it's mountable okay, but the main thing I'm looking for is the management of adding/expanding disks etc. If not, the alternative in mind is to virtualise a very basic Syno install just to manage SHR... but this seems overkill to me. Thoughts appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoID Posted April 10, 2016 Share #2 Posted April 10, 2016 Synology makes it simple to manage your drives and volumes, but if you want you can switch to Ubuntu or another Linux distro. SHR is basically mdadm + LVM so if you google that you should find some guide that helps you to configure it on any Linux distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benoire Posted April 10, 2016 Share #3 Posted April 10, 2016 Yup, all synology did, and it is in no doubt very clever, was to create gui and a automatic system that determined the 'best' partition sizes and then assemble it all using MDADM and LVM. To create a hybrid raid manually takes quite a bit of work to establish the best partition sizes for Raid 5 and Raid 1 and it becomes harder as you need to add more drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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