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= Beginner's Guide to Greyhole =
=== The Landing Zone ===
*Greyhole works through a so called Landing Zone (lz)for each share.*The lz is /var/hda/files/sharename.
*Every file copied to a Greyhole storage pool will first go to the lz.
*Greyhole will then move the file to one of the drives in the pool and create a symlinkfor it in the lz.
*Every lz can be on a different drive, for this guide we put them all on the same drive and call them all together one lz.
*The important thing about this is that you need to consider the size of the lz.
*If you want to copy a large amount of data to the pool, the lz will fill up quickly before Greyhole can distribute the files.
*As the root partition must not go into he pool, the lz stays out of it in this scenario.
*You should avoid a large root partition because the space can '''not''' be included in the pool and will be used only temporarily.
*When installing Amahi, disconnect all drives but the OS drive. They will be [[Adding a second hard drive to your HDA|added later.]]
== Part 2 - Enabling and using Greyhole ==
* '''Attention''': this only protects against disk failures. If you delete a file, all copies are deleted, too.
* Now you're all finished setting up Greyhole. As you copy files to the shares, Greyhole will take care of the rest.
* '''Important:''' If you work with files on shares directly on the HDA, you have to [[Mount Shares Locally]]. You risk breaking the storage pool if you don't.
== Part 3 - Further Information ==
[[Greyhole|Greyhole wiki page]]<br>
[[Storage pooling]]<br>
[[Greyhole Landing Zonelanding zone]]<br>
[http://code.google.com/p/greyhole/wiki/MovingLandingZone Moving the Landing Zone]<br>
[[Adding a second hard drive to your HDA]]<br>
[http://www.greyhole.net Greyhole homepage]
