[olug] nas box

[Obi-Wan]

> (As for FreeNAS vs. OpenFiler, when I was researching the two, I came
> away with the impression that FreeNAS would run on older/slower
> hardware, requiring fewer resources than OpenFiler, while OpenFiler
> has more features, and tends to provide better performance (based on
> 2-3 articles and posts I found from people who tried both).

That's kinda what I'd found, too.

One noteworthy advantage for FreeNAS is that it supports ZFS, while
the licensing verbage prevents ZFS support from being integrated
into the Linux kernel.  FreeNAS is FreeBSD, while OpenFiler is Linux.

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