Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:13:45 +0100 From: "Charles Mason" <charlie.mas@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? Message-ID: <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> 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
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