Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 27/08/2013 13:36, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2013-08-26 2:23 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I run it on my NASes, and the thing that really sold me was what it >lets >>> me as the admin do: >>> >>> I get all the benefits of directories with none of the downsides. >>> I get all the benefits of mount points with none of the downsides. >>> I get all the benefits of discrete filesystems with none of the >>> downsides. >>> >>> Like you say, a truly modern fs built for modern needs. >> >> Are these home-built NAS's running FreeBSD (or maybe FreeNAS)? Or >> TrueNAS or Nexenta boxes? >> >> I'm wondering what the best way would be to get something set up for >ZFS >> file storage. I have some older servers that I can use, so was >leaning >> toward FreeNAS... >> > >Mine are HP mini-servers (the cube shaped ones) with 4 SATA bays >running >FreeNAS 8.0.something. > >Dunno if you've worked with FreeNAS before, but it's literally a case >of >write the image to USB or flash storage and boot off it. Then play. > >You will need to be able to boot off a USB stick, CF card or similar, >FreeNAS uses an entire drive for it's system partition and it's a shame >to waste a whole high-capacity disk just for a 2G system image > > > >-- >Alan McKinnon >alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Alan. How is the security settings on the shares now? I had issues when accessing through NFS and CIFS simultaneously where files written over NFS had to have the permissions altered before they were accessible over CIFS. Other issue I had was inability to have users only being able to access files they were allowed to. With CIFS it sort of worked. But with NFS I had full access to all files. That is the reason why I setup my NAS manually using Gentoo. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
