[ale] NAS

[Christopher Fowler]

I'm testing this one in VMware now.  I like the idea of the disti being
small.  This is FreeBSD which is okay by me.  

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 11:46 +0000, aaron wrote:
> On Saturday 04 February 2006 15:44, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I need more disk space!  I'm looking at installing Linux on an old PC
> > with big drive and turning into NAS.  I have some questions.
> > 
> > 
> > 1.  Are there any Linux distros that are aimed at
> >     being NAS.  Just like some distros aimed at 
> >     being firewalls.
> 
> Your timing for doing this looks about right:
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=current
> (dated 2006.01.30)
> 
> New distributions added to the waiting list
>   FreeNAS. FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server supporting:
>   CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a full web
>   configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 16 MB once installed on
>   Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key. The minimal FreeBSD distribution,
>   web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on m0n0wall.
>   Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.
> 
> <http://www.freenas.org/>
> 
> > 2.  NFS or SMB?
> >     Only Linux desktops will use the NAS so I have a choice.
> 
> SAMBA seems to be a funcional network file system scheme despite being based 
> on M$ protocols.  Using this would also maintain easy file access should you 
> ever plug a Mac OSeX laptop or other guest system into your Linux network.
> 
> peace
> aaron
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