[olug] Home file server - FreeNAS or Openfiler or ???

Dan Linder dan at linder.org
Tue Mar 29 03:47:32 UTC 2011


I want to setup an expandable home server, the main requirement will be to
be able to add capacity to it without having to backup and reload after
building the new RAID. (like a Drobo)

I see FreeNAS supports ZFS (
http://wiki.mattrude.com/index.php/Freenas/ZFS_and_FreeNAS_expansion), but I
can't find if OpenFiler does.

Or should I look at one of the FreeBSD systems that support ZFS natively and
just setup my own server?

Anyone have a solution they've used that they can recommend?

Dan
-- 
***************** ************* *********** ******* ***** *** **
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
    (Who can watch the watchmen?)
    -- from the Satires of Juvenal
"I do not fear computers, I fear the lack of them."
    -- Isaac Asimov (Author)
** *** ***** ******* *********** ************* *****************



More information about the OLUG mailing list