Greyhole is a system module that uses Samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives (whatever their size, however they're connected).
In additionFrom this pool, it also allows you to create redundant copies of space is allocated for all Shares participating in the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware failspool.
From this poolIn addition, space is allocated for all Shares participating it also allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store in the poolshares. You can use this to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails.
In short, Greyhole offers:
* '''Max''': Alternatively, you can chose this option "Always Max" so that the number of copies matches your partitions, even if you reduce or increase the number of partitions participating in the pool. You want this option for valuable files.
Check out some diagrams explaining things in deail in the [http://greyhole.pommepause.com/ Greyhole] home page.
Note that Check out some diagrams explaining things in detail in the [http://greyhole.pommepause.com/ Greyhole] home page. '''NOTE:''' Greyhole is not a backup solution. If a file is removed, all copies are removed.
