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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:34:20 -0600
From:      Erik Osterholm <freebsd-lists-erik@erikosterholm.org>
To:        Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advanced Routing/Firewall Interface Options for FreeBSD 7
Message-ID:  <20071128223420.GA90523@aleph.cepheid.org>
In-Reply-To: <fikhs7$d15$2@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <354DE91A-5523-4195-9E39-916BEE1139ED@zinkconsulting.com> <fikhs7$d15$2@ger.gmane.org>

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On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:08:37PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote:
> galenz@zinkconsulting.com wrote:
> 
> > FreeBSD 7 supports ZFS. From there, NFS and Samba are easy. I've been
> > using Solaris for this, but it's rather archaic in many ways, and the
> > only reason I use it is for the stable ZFS support. Everything else in
> > Solaris - given my needs - is a poor match.
> 
> People have reported problems with ZFS and NFS and Samba in the past.
> Test throughly before using (and report problems, if any :) ).
> 

While this is true, recent versions of Samba have addressed the issue.
I'm running a ZFS pool with Samba sharing it to my network, and it's
working flawlessly.

FreeBSD localhost 7.0-BETA1.5 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1.5 #0: Wed Oct 24 23:17:30 UTC 2007 root@myers.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

samba-3.0.26a_1,1   A free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX

Erik



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