I've been using the nexenta appliance for a NAS, it's very nice. The community edition is free and will do up to 18TB.
http://www.nexenta.org/ It's OpenSolaris kernel with the Debian package system. You get native ZFS support. Volumes can be exported as NFS, CIFS, FTP, RSYNC, WebDAV and HTTP Index. On 12/13/2011 03:26 PM, Bill Putney wrote: > Robert, > > That was my original design for our implementation. What stopped me was the > hardware I ended up with didn't have graphic card drivers for Solaris. A > fairly mundane problem but I was up against a time line and settled for Linux. > > I found ZFS to be fairly easy to set up but that's just me. There is both a > user space ZFS app for Linux as well as native ZFS now available. I know > there were some license incompatibilities that kept ZFS from being ported > over directly from the Sun/Oracle code base. I guess the native ZFS on Linux > is a rewrite of some parts to make the license model fit. > > So as it turns out I don't have the server running Solaris but I can't think > of a reason not to do it. > > There also seems to be a lot of Sun branded Intel servers out there on the > second hand market that are very inexpensive. Get one that has SATA drive > slots and make sure you get the trays if they require them. In for a penny, > in for a £. > > Bill Putney - KPTZ Port Townsend > > Sent from my iPad > _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
