[geeks] Thoughts? (Cheap NAS with nice feature set)

[Michael Parson]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008, Alois Hammer wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:37:34 -0400, "Joshua Boyd" <jdboyd at jdboyd.net>

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>> I'd go for Solaris.  Actually, I did go with Solaris, although I
>> certainly don't have 2TB yet.
>
> I've been toying with the idea of OpenSolaris or Nexenta or something,
> but a) Linux and BSD are both considerably more performant, especially
> for filesystems (clearly an important consideration for a NAS device)
> and b) using anything other than Sun Solaris 10 x86 isn't going to get
> me that tasty Solaris experience to go on my resume.  And, honestly?  I
> can't stand Sun Solaris.  The userland tools are terrible, and getting
> good GNU tools on seems to be an exercise in hair-pulling, cursing, and
> wondering why stuff doesn't get updated for months or longer.  (Or has
> someone produced an alternative to SunFreeware?)

I gave up on SunFreeware a while back and started using Blastwave.

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org