On 1/28/20 03:15, Aidan Gauland wrote:
On 27/01/20 12:40 pm, Tom Dial wrote:I can't tell whether or not this response is facetious. If it is, and you are not determined for other reasons to use Linux, I recommend FreeNASNo, I was serious, but I do have limits. I've looked at FreeNAS, but I would much rather use Debian, partially for familiarity, and party because this will be a multi-purpose server, not just a NAS.
That's entirely reasonable. FreeNAS has a number of easily installed and managed plugins for various purposes, but nowhere near what is available for Debian (or probably FreeBSD). It will, however, run in a VM using kvm or VirtualBox, maybe well enough to saturate one or more gigabit ethernet channels, depending on the underlying hardware capabilities. That might be a reasonable alternative that could simplify storage service setup and management. Many of the easily found Internet pieces should be skipped, though, except for
https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/yes-you-can-virtualize-freenas/In particular, the devices presented to a VM for use in storage zpools should be complete raw HDDs or SSDs (the root volume could be a hypervisor virtual device, however).
Tom Dial