Haven't looked at FreeNas in a little while, I may be wrong but I think "full" means you have a full(er) environment, e.g. you can actually compile a program. Embedded is stripped-down to the bone to have the lowest footprint. I believe both will use a ram disk to avoid writing to the CF card, so the larger the worst.
Few months ago when I was prepping a PC Engines Alix machine (256MB ram) I used FreeNAS embedded + SlimNAS, and it was slow. I took a microdrive out of a dead ipod mini I had lying around, did away with the ram disk, added a bit of swap space on the microdrive, and the thing was flying. I guess I could have done this w/ FreeNAS, but I finally opted for using linux since I wanted to install other stuff. I know some are actually using r/w filesystems directly on fast CF cards. I don't know how long they last, and how this compares to using a microdrive (which are hard to come by new, but fairly common as ipod repair parts) -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73851 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
