On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:33:32PM -0700, jason whitt wrote: > > I love Freenas, however if he is going for home use check into
Not home use, home-like (by a small group) use of an enterprise-featured system. It has to be open, support a wide range of hardware, do large volumes, do remote use and administration over VPN, remote synchronization, VLAN-wide access to shares for hosts or vhosts, and the like. Apart from FreeNAS NexentaStor could be a fallback option, but it looks proprietary (?). > UN-RAID by lime-technology. THere are things that i do not like about > it the lack of features, but really i didn't need anything more than a > windows share. However being able to resize a raid 5 array is > awesome..ZFS doesnt allow for that yet (fingers crossed) I havent The usage pattern is to add higher volume disks additionall or instead of failed ones, and I think zfs does support that http://harryd71.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-resize-zfs.html > noticed any performance issues with UN-RAID i have a few vm drives on > there and various media files. however only a handfull of machines are > accesing it currently. I expect the box to mostly idle, and see occasional read-mostly single or couple users access. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
