What's the best NAS distro, Sup Forums?
>FreeNAS
>NAS4Free
>Nexenta
>OpenMediaVault (OMV)
>Openfiler
>Rockstor
>Turnkey Linux File Server
>EasyNAS
The best NAS distro?
Christian Moore
Julian Wood
I've only used FreeNAS.
Curious to know if there are better.
Bentley Howard
literally any linux distro with zfs support
I recommend arch
Connor Bennett
why do you need a "nas distro" aren't you limiting your capabilities?
Ryan Brooks
> literally any linux distro with zfs support
So, BSD then.
Chase Cook
bsd is not linux
since bsd sucks proprietary cocks
Jonathan Baker
Illmatic
Aaron Bailey
Synology DSM, of course
Asher Mitchell
Anybody know of any nas that has asymmetric raid other than drobo and synology?
Owen Hughes
Well, Synology uses mdadm with a few scripts and wrappers, so you can probably implement it in every linux machine
Isaiah Bailey
Perhaps because he's running a storage-focused device and does not need the bloat and complexity of a general purpose distro.
William Lee
Apt get install samba-server
Ryan Foster
> Pretending that is hipster OS designed for people who think Linux is too mainstream should be used on any device, ever
Andrew Butler
why would you use any of these?
Just put a proper general-purpose Linux distribution (Or FreeBSD if you're into that, like ) on it and install what you want. It's not hard, and it's so much more flexible, since you can do things with the computer other than serving files.
Jack Martinez
Useless for NAS
Jordan Parker
why would I use zfs over, say, ext4?
Jonathan Wright
>lolol everyone's a hipster xDDD
Fuck off, cancer.
Nathan Sanchez
FreeBSD + ZFS + jails
has the added benefit of allowing other jails to provide services other than file hosting, like a DNS or web caching server
Samuel Murphy
Assuming I don't have any NAS suitable hardware, is it worth getting the FreeNAS Mini? It's only $999, which is like a fucking low end Macbook, and I hear it's hardware is optimized for NAS, but I'm wondering if there are any better deals.
Josiah Cook
snapshots, integrated volume management, faster software striping than hardware RAID solutions, intent journal and L2ARC to improve read and write speeds, data deduplication... it's a thoroughly modern filesystem compared to extend, which is still tied to some of the limitations of ext2/3 and other "classical" filesystems
Logan Perez
no, freenas is fucking shitty and only the tools on Sup Forums praise it. zfs in general isnt worth the hassle
Jacob Sanders
*ext4, not extend
Cameron Ross
Windows server 2012 R2 + Drivepool
Caleb Jackson
>zfs in general isnt worth the hassle
Okay buddy.
Jaxon Williams
It's obvious SOMEONE has never administered a proper file system