[9fans] Plan 9 household shared file server

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

I'm hoping I can get this configured nicely, but I'd really like to
have a RAID server in my house for keeping important files for myself
and my wife.

I'd really like to do this with Venti in some way, and also with Plan
9.... (not sure about how Venti is in P9P in terms of completeness or
robustness)

so I'm wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for RAID cards
that I can get today that work well with Plan 9 and pointers to
documentation for using them (hopefully not too bad).

I've actually not had the occasion to really ever use a RAID at home
for anything so I'm rather green to all of this.

I'd like to export the filesystem to windows and Mac OS X boxes, so
ideally CIFS or SMB export would work I suppose (unless FUSE for both
platforms is really mature enough to do it and 9P on top of FUSE for
that matter - It needs to be really simple as my wife isn't going to
use it if it isn't going to be "drag and drop")

Dave