nanoBSD is a fun to work with, yet very time consuming. There is a ton of stuffs that is coming with FreeBSD9 like the resource allocation to jails and HAST.
The new FreeNAS team (maybe ixsystems management) has made some marketing gimmicks (http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?5291-Is-this-deliberate-in-FreeNAS8) which deviates me away from FreeNAS8 whereas FreeNAS 0.7.5 version looks promising, but to create something useful with jails seems to be a strenous task with that image. That is the reason I wanted to go with DFBSD with HAMMER, which also has some limitations till these lines are written. ;-) On 12/29/11, Edward Martinez <edwar...@live.com> wrote: > On 12/29/11 00:26, Zenny wrote: >> Thanks for the list of alternatives. I figured out the cons cons which >> I didn't like: >> >> Limitation to desktop: OpenIndiana is geared towards desktop-oriented >> and their usb img does not work when I tried a few days ago. >> >> Architecture limitation: SmarOS only supports intel architecture >> (because Joyent is an Intel-sponsored company). >> >> Size Limitation: Nexenta's community version only supports 18TB and >> also requires registration >> >> Mere a release: Illumos is mere a release on which OpenIndiana, >> SmartOS are based on which already has limitations. >> >> In case HAMMER has two features like volume management and internal >> cache with DFBSDs installer that allows to install in more than one >> disk, it would be the finest thing in the world. ;-) >> >> On 12/28/11, Edward Martinez<edwar...@live.com> wrote: >>> On 12/28/11 10:13, Zenny wrote: >>>> I have no option than going for a freebsd+zfs (with >>>> nanobsd). >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Have you looked into other great OSes that also uses ZFS: >>> OpenIndiana, SmartOS, Nexentastor. which they are based on >>> illumos,kernel (a forked form Opensolaris)? >>> >>> http://openindiana.org/ >>> http://smartos.org/ >>> http://www.nexenta.org/ >>> https://www.illumos.org/ >>> >> > Interesting...was not aware SmartOS only works on Intel. I agree > nanoBSD or maybe freeNAS would make great alternatives:-) >
