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

[Justin Reiners]

I have never played with lvm but have read horror stories about it. I could
never make it work to my advantage plus I can't bare to lose data... I am
sure others use it and love it.

On Mar 28, 2011 11:04 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin.reiners at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you looked into amahi? I use it on my network, it is based on fedora
14
> and has greyhole for expansion. Also does dns and dhcp. Has one click
> install plugin software like sabnzbd couch potato and sickbeard. Also dlna
> servers etc. I moved off of windows home server to it and couldn't be
> happier!
>
> On Mar 28, 2011 10:48 PM, "Dan Linder" <dan at linder.org> wrote:
>> 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
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