[olug] nas box

[Jeff Hinrichs]

+1 FreeNAS http://freenas.org/
-Jeff



On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Benjamin Watson <bwatson1979 at gmail.com>wrote:

> +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.
> >
> > I assume you mean "a home network".
> >
> > FreeBSD + ZFS
> >
> > Slackware
> >
> >> Also give some ideas on how to set it up too.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Kevin D. Snodgrass
> >
> >
> >
> >
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