@ Trev
I just run 2000 server and converted disks to dynamic disks.
In that matter all disks were spanned as one logical volume. however. If i wish to remove one disk from the volume i break it apart and loose ALL data. UNWANTED.
From earlier experiences I do not want do mount drives in folders. I have had problems of data corruption at some point.
This last time i tried 2000 server it had problems with data transfer rates. It was not able to stream data over gigabit Ethernet to my mediacentre xbox.
Freenas did, on the same hardware.
I have now installed ubuntu 8.04 on my server.
Will in the next days try use LVM filsesystem and see how it works out.
A friend of mine standing in the same position as me, wanting to build e cheap end easy to expand fileserver is testing linuxbased
openfiler. If ubuntu does not work out for me i will try open filer as well...
If
freeNAS was stable running
vinum volume manager I would have choset it..
EDIT:
Messed up with the different types of volume managers... :-)