On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:29 PM Jan Betlach <jbetl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi guys, > > I am setting up a home NAS for five users. Total amount of data stored > on NAS will not exceed 5 TB. > Clients are Macs and OpenBSD machines, so that SSHFS works fine from > both (no need for NFS or Samba). > I am much more familiar and comfortable with OpenBSD than with FreeBSD. > My dilema while stating the above is as follows: > > Will the OpenBSD’s UFS stable and reliable enough for intended > purpose? NAS will consist of just one encrypted drive, regularly backed > to hardware RAID encrypted two-disks drive via rsync. > > Should I byte the bullet and build the NAS on FreeBSD taking advantage > of ZFS, snapshots, replications, etc? Or is this an overkill? > > BTW my most important data is also backed off-site. > > Thank you in advance for your comments. > > See https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20190203 (slides here https://www.vincentdelft.be/static/post/post_20190203/openbsd-as-nas.pdf and video recording here https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/openbsd_nas_system/ ) > Jan > > -- eduardominguez.es
