On Oct 5, 2011 12:10 AM, "Mark Knecht" <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > <SNIP> > > If you want to rebuild it totally, why not go the simpler route of > > installing 'soft appliances' like FreeNAS, OpenFiler, or Nexenta? > > > > Rgds, > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I didn't know about any of these. > > Some comments: > > 1) The machine is already running Gentoo and is reasonably up to date. > (Within 30 days or so) I didn't want to start from scratch but rather > just wanted to remove a couple of drives which don't support system > needs, throw a couple of 1TB hard drives and hopefully I'm up and > running. > > 2) As for the three suggestions, and at a glance they all look very > capable of supporting my limited needs, I really don't want to learn > to maintain a server running different tools. (I.e. - anything not > portage) > > I sure like the look of the FreeNAS pages though. >
TBH, I have no experience with either FreeNAS or Nexenta, but people I know in other fora swear by them. As to OpenFiler, I've deployed it several times in my office, twice for production. It's quite easy to manage, especially since it's update-able from the webGUI. There *is* a learning curve, though. Exposing OpenFiler to act as a NAS box that's accessible from Windows has a few gotchas, but after reading some wikis, I got it up and running beautifully. Rgds,
