<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>I have used and liked OpenFiler, but the article I Google'd up seems to indicate that FreeNAS is better for your application:<br>http://geekyprojects.com/general/openfiler-vs-freenas/<br><br>My favorite solution for this problem, any time performance isn't absolutely the only concern, is still a general-purpose distribution plus configure the services you want: NFS, Samba, iSCSI, drbd, or whatever.<br><br><span><span name="x"></span>--<br>David L. Willson<br>Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast<br>RHCE Network+ A+ Linux+ LPIC-1 Ubuntu<br>Mobile 720-333-LANS(5267)<br><br>This is a good time for a r3VOLution.<span name="x"></span><br></span><br><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;">My project for the weekend, such as it is, is to put more of the hardware around the apartment to constructive use. I was looking at FreeNAS. And it occurred to me I could ask the club for alternative storage theme distributions? Essentially the goal is to create a server I can backup to.<br>
<br>Bean<br>
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