On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 12:53:47 +0800 > Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: > >> On 08/29/12 12:42, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: >> > On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:57:07 +0800 >> > Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: >> > >> >> Hi all, >> >> Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro >> >> for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, >> >> SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be >> >> working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be >> >> fiddled via ssh. Obviously there are the usual suspects, debian, >> >> centos, but does anyone have any recommendations viv a vis a >> >> stripped down distro, sort of like Lubuntu is to Ubuntu? >> >> >> >> Any thoughts greatly appreciated, >> >> >> >> Andrew >> > >> > Well, if you are only going to need it as an NAS, why not try >> > FreeNAS? OK, its kernel is BSD rather than Linux, but that >> > shouldn't be a problem. >> > >> > Kerwin. >> > >> >> Thanks, I'll look into that. > > FreeNAS comes *highly* recommended. It isn't cli driven though, it's a > django framework on nginx and runs off a memory stick. Resource usage > is next to nothing and it makes an awesome media server. It ships with > NFS, CIFS and FTP support and has plugins for dlna, firefly and > transmission. With the benefit that you don't have to build any of it, > write a 160M image to a memory stick, reboot, configure storage drives > and away you go. > > I would advise that you not use ZFS on an old machine though, ZFS likes > *lots* of RAM. Rather use the FreeBSD default of UFS. > > The screenshot is one of mine, a media server running on an HP > Proliant miniserver. No matter what I throw at that thing, it just > keeps laughing at me and asking if that's all I got....
I will concur that FreeNAS is a good fileserving platform. It's very probable I'll use it for my storage needs once I've got the time and coin to assemble a storage box after moving+silly season. -- :wq
