[mdlug] open source home storage

[Aaron Kulkis]

Carl T. Miller wrote:
> I have always set up Samba, NFS and/or iSCSI on a
> server and configured it myself.  Recently a friend
> asked for help deciding between FreeNAS and OpenFiler
> for use at work.
> 
> Looking at the specs, OpenFiler looked better than
> FreeNAS, so I focused on OpenFiler.  It had a lot of
> nice features he would never need.  The sticker was
> that they charged for the documentation.  This didn't
> give me warm fuzzies about product support.  I asked
> my friend what he really needed, and he said something
> easy to set up and administer.
> 
> We installed CentOS and configured Samba is less than
> half an hour.  He saw that it could do everything he
> needed, and he already knows how to maintain CentOS.
> 
> So, my question to you...is there anything on OpenFiler
> or FreeNAS that you need that you can't do with Samba,
> NFS or iSCSI?
> 

Personally, I've always felt that NFS was the ideal solution
for any network behind a firewall.

Beyond mounting remote filesystems, what else do you need?