From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 16:46:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 561031065687 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:46:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from charlie.mas@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.191]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67348FC17 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:46:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from charlie.mas@gmail.com) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n8so194298gve.39 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:46:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to :to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=ZK2Q4NIChM28XA/SmeKjZyljppVojIlKmjTSmDQtZi0=; b=PU2qH0xlJoF/0Lk2KuEsOdM685QezVxbZqu46GxRWYnyJLs0O/D7A2y8Yv6V0AgNTm o268rL1rzhXVLBmpK1hs5PXwXhqjtNZODQsp4YP/ywRMC9gGeVQiCI+m1OVAU1EJzK2I 89yd9gARxQMGS+K0Zj2vkA0uRaR6uA/PSUWU4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=gYcaLlYX2j78LUxq5yskz8gHEFwZK4asN6gQmAke0CpMoohrZ/a/Cap8bZC/aU9jpL UNXl6dvAxG3u2/Ju1QUc3Ssuo+IiYqHagIA4rx5cpL3uRvPuGEr3dBkTZ5A2Imql2xg0 pvJ7cptTvCrLacela34Q2Riho10Uc3YsBKWZ4= Received: by 10.103.227.10 with SMTP id e10mr2307719mur.38.1224260026035; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:13:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.103.208.8 with HTTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:13:45 +0100 From: "Charles Mason" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: charlie@cpsoftware.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:46:57 -0000 On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it >> with FreeBSD >> or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer >> FreeBSD > > do what your boss wants. it's his company, and it's his right to make bad > decision > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > If he's a good boss (as the poster seem to be implying) then he will be asking because he hasn't made his mind up his mind completely, but yeah don't get fired over it :) >From what I have seen, both are perfectly capable and since its samba that will be doing most of the actual work its probably doesn't matter that much. Of course the next question if he goes with Linux, is which distro. Perhaps the question should be FreeBSD v Red Hat v Ubuntu v SUSE v latest flavour of the month. Since keeping it patched is essential, these sorts of admin features do matter. I am not sure what File System you plan on using but FreeBSD does have one killer feature Linux doesn't, ZFS. Linux thanks to licensing issues doesn't really have a solid implementation yet (although there have been attempts). If you need its features and can put a decent amount of RAM in to the file server, to good be a good choice and perhaps just the angle you are looking for. To be honest I haven't used ZFS in serious production yet although I have been running it at home on my DIY 1.25tb NAS without any issues for nearly a year. Still if you have spent a lot an expensive RAID system disabling it and using ZFS's superior (unless you really spent a lot on that RAID hardware) redundancy may not go down to well. Hope that's of some help. Charlie M