Hi John, If you want to implement a file server I would suggest you go for DragonFlyBSD 3.0 released on Feb 22.
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release30/ You can download the ISO/USB images from http://www.dragonflybsd.org/ I wrote a wiki article for beginners and it will of help to you. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/environmentquickstart/ 'pkgin' comes by default now and need no special configuration. It is just like Debian's apt even the commands # pkgin update && pkgin install samba should get samba installed. Installation is simple. Choose the amount of swap you want and and leave the rest for /. Choose the option for Hammer filesystem and you will get a setup with PFses automatically configured for /usr, /var, /home etc. This is much flexible than Linux's LVM. You will find how simple and easy thing are in the BSD world compared to linux if you use DragonFly :-) If you can tell your specific requirements I can also tell you some neat tricks you can use. For example I backup all my LXC VPSes on my debian to dragonfly backup server. DragonFly can store all those VPSes in 1/5th of the space that Ext4/XFS uses on Linux due to the 'dedup' feature. For example given below is the details of VPS backups from my Secon VM server in office. DragonFly uses just 8 GB to store aroung 39 GB of data on a linux EXT4 file System :-) dfly-bkpsrv1# hammer dedup-simulate /Backup3/vms2-lxc Dedup-simulate running Dedup-simulate /Backup3/vms2-lxc succeeded Simulated dedup ratio = 4.88 You have new mail. dfly-bkpsrv1# hammer dedup /Backup3/vms2-lxc Dedup running Dedup /Backup3/vms2-lxc succeeded Dedup ratio = 4.87 39 GB referenced 8247 MB allocated 2858 KB skipped 14 CRC collisions 0 SHA collisions 0 bigblock underflows 0 new dedup records 0 new dedup bytes regards Siju On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:31 AM, John Joseph <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Siju > I have never tried BSD, After reading your posts > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20041013190823 > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-09/msg00083.html > I would like to try it out for a Samba Implementation > Thanks > Joseph John > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Siju George <[email protected]> > *To:* "This List discusses GNU/Linux & GNU, GPL Software" < > [email protected]> > *Sent:* Thursday, 1 March 2012 8:39 AM > *Subject:* Re: [ILUG-Cochin.org] HAMMER2 going to beat btrfs and zfs > > Hi, > > I haven't tried it out in production. > I evaluated it when I wanted to migrate my backup server from OpenBSD's > FFS to some file system with history. > That was around early 2010. > At that time > > 1. Btrfs was not stable enough for a backup server > 2. ZFS in FreeBSD was on a lower version than Solaris and Solaris was > a big no-no > > More over ZFS features needed plenty of RAM. > > Hammer1 was the right thing for me then because > > > 1. It came as default file system with the OS > 2. PFS snapshoting was the right choice for a backup server > 3. nofsck was a good thing for big disks > 4. Needed way much less RAM to run all Hammer features like snapshot, > prune, rebalance, reblock etc on file system. ( > http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/2012/02/28/9296.html ) > 5. Mirroring file systems across systems on different physical > locations was possible and easy through ssh > > There were few other reasons too you can read it here if you are > interested. > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2010-09/msg00083.html > > Hammer1 lacked some features of ZFS but I could do without them at that > time. If hammer1 was not stable at that time then I would have gone for ZFS. > Hammer2 seems to be awesome but we will have to wait till it becomes > stable and feature complete. But OpenBSD and Dragonfly BSD projects are not > slacking like the linux ones so you can expect them to complete it in the > time frame they mention. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7pkyDUX5uM > > ZFS status on FreeBSD is very much improved now and it may be worthwhile > trying it out if you have plenty of RAM :-) > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html > > Regards > > Siju > > On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:18 AM, Nataraj S Narayan <[email protected]>wrote: > > Hi Siju > > How good is zfs? Have you tried it out? > > regards > > Nataraj > > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Siju George <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00020.html > > > > > > --Siju > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > > #[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List > http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ > http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org > #[email protected] >
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