Sticky: Ye Olde Laundry List

[madshi]

My vote goes for NFS support. Why? Because most hardware media player boxes (e.g. Tvix HD-5000,  PixelMagic MB200 etc) struggle to play high bit rate video files over Samba shares, while they're doing better with NFS shares.

[Glimmerman911]

Good points about the writable user shares being a "nice have" only.

To me, must have would be:

1.  Security, for home users would be nice, but this is stopping me from recommending an unRaid server at my work, I am in charge of IT but it would have to be secure, at the user level.
2.  S3 to save power and hence dollars, and the enviro.  Plus the server will last longer.
3.  Shorter drive spin down times, preferably drive specific.

[melechmet]

My vote goes for NFS support. Why? Because most hardware media player boxes (e.g. Tvix HD-5000,  PixelMagic MB200 etc) struggle to play high bit rate video files over Samba shares, while they're doing better with NFS shares.

I've been eager to see that as well, along with UPnP- both have advantages and disadvantages with the latest crop of players.

[Tybio]

Tom has already committed that the next build will have NFS built into it.  However, he stated that Integration with the UI would be in a subsequent release.

Another reason for NFS is to provide a second means of sharing the drives incase of Samba issues (like some of us are seeing now with Vista .

[shaurya]

Good points about the writable user shares being a "nice have" only.

To me, must have would be:

1.  Security, for home users would be nice, but this is stopping me from recommending an unRaid server at my work, I am in charge of IT but it would have to be secure, at the user level.
2.  S3 to save power and hence dollars, and the enviro.  Plus the server will last longer.
3.  Shorter drive spin down times, preferably drive specific.

Hello, I am a newbie. Liked unRaid very much based on what I have read so far. For me point 2 & 3  and WOL  are the most important factors before I can commit my resources to unRaid. I will try out the free version but will not buy the full blow version as I am a firm believer in energy/environmental conservation. Will watch the development closely.

Regards and Good Luck.
Shaurya

[boyce1]

Silly request #1

An option in "Settings" to view disk temperature in degrees Fahrenheit for those of us who are Celsius challenged...

[Nitemage]

I really need NFS (UDP & TCP) support.

+1

I have several TVIX video streaming boxes that are unable to stream HD files with SAMBA but work great with NFS.

By the way, what are other people using to stream HD content other then HTPC's?

[MattH]

Another Tvix user here who really would like NFS to be at the top of the list

Currently trying all manner of Samba/windows/mac solutions to allow my movies to be piped down to the TVIX.

I just hate the idea of having to have windows/mac running to run some NFS software to allow the streaming to work properly.. so all in on the Unraid would be superb.

[petsheep]

- user defined spin down time in minutes/hours per drive or the option for all drives (not just 1,2,3,4,5 hrs in a dropdown)
- auto refresh of main.htm: would help with parity check or rebuild to get an updated status instead of clicking refresh. this could be a user defined option too.
- ability to modify disk names instead of disk1,disk2,ect.....
- choose which installed network card you would like to use. could be a dropdown and a forced restart after modification of NIC

keep up the good work!
Thanks.

[fatal]

my vote is to have user security for each of the automatic network shares/disks that show up in My Network Places like you do for the user created shares (export mode, exceptions, valid users, invalid users, etc).

or atleast have an "exceptions" field so we can export Disk shares as "Export read only" w/ the exception for "root"

[boosted]

I vote to bump up the jumbo frame on the list.

[openhelix]

I'd say iSCSI over NFS. It's faster and platform independent.

[openhelix]

On the topic of security, I made an assumption but never saw it listed. LDAP or AD-integrated user access is the only way it would work for me. No one's going to maintain a separate set of permissions on a medium-large scale.

[miketew]

The List:
- support multi-core processors & memory beyond 1GB
- add cpuspeed support
- support additional file systems such as XFS, NTFS

- NFS support
- AFP support

- get time from the internet (ntpd)

if this is a linux kernel-based solution, isn't this as easy as compiling these in to the kernel (or modules?) - i guess then just adding them into the UI is all that is left...

and ntp is real easy i actually don't use ntpd, i use ntpdate, and then i schedule it to run via cron every hour. would be easy to allow the user to define their own servers and how often they want it to update.

[miketew]

since this is a storage OS first, all priority should be on storage related things. performance should be key.

important:
- increase write performance
- automatic save/restore of Flash 'config' directory to a designated hard disk file
- email alerts
- hot spares

less of a concern... to me this is just more bells and whistles that should be very low priority (this is where SOHO units get lost from the primary goal of a reliable and performant storage unit in my opinion...)
- UPnP
- Integrated wizd server
- Slimserver 6.5.0. support
- other misc servers, eg, "Galleon"
- hamachi vpn