From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 20 08:20:56 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 C63BC106567E for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mx1.esiee.fr (mx1.esiee.fr [147.215.1.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84CBC8FC1A for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from f.bonnet@esiee.fr) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (mail.esiee.fr [147.215.1.3]) by mx1.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FEE130D7E; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:20:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.esiee.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by VAMS.dummy (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B5C629069; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:20:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from privftp.esiee.fr (privftp.esiee.fr [147.215.1.190]) by mail.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F2029069; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:20:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lisa.esiee.fr (lisa.esiee.fr [147.215.1.21]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bonnetf) by privftp.esiee.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 027913981A; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:20:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <48FC3F66.9080507@esiee.fr> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:20:54 +0200 From: Frank Bonnet User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081003) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: charlie@cpsoftware.com References: <48F8A258.2060407@esiee.fr> <20081017174145.L10784@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1960fb140810170913s237f7295jd5e192f1745c9dcb@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:20:56 -0000 Charles Mason wrote: > 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 Hello Thanks for your answer, filesystem is not really my problem I'll use a Netapp server for home directories.