[olug] nas box

[Benjamin Watson]

+1 vote for freeNAS.  Based on freeBSD and pretty easy (for me at
least) to get up and running on older hardware.  Small footprint (I
installed to a compact flash card) and capable of handling a wide
variety of disk schemes (e.g. RAID).  Google for freeNAS install and
there are plenty of easy to follow step-by-step guides out there.

Ben

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Kevin D. Snodgrass
<kdsnodgrass at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- On Sat, 7/3/10, adam davis <radamdavis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi fellow Oluggers
>> Can anyone tell me what distro would make the best NAS for
>> a homework.
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> I assume you mean "a home network".
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> FreeBSD + ZFS
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> Slackware
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>> Also give some ideas on how to set it up too.
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> Depends on your level of skill with *NIX and friends.  If you need pointy-clicky gooeys, then maybe RedHat/CentOS or SuSE.  Note: I don't include Fedora and openSuSE because they are constantly being updated and support life is short.  That is good for a desktop, security things getting fixed quick and all.  But if you have a router/firewall between the this server and the Internet and don't allow outside NFS/CIFS mounts to athe fileserver/NAS most of those worries are gone.
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> Bottom line, for me at least, a fileserver/NAS should be as *THIN* as possible, i.e. no extra stuff installed and definately nothing extra loaded.
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> Kevin D. Snodgrass
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