From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 27 15:26:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA7D76E2 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from smtp.eutelia.it (mp1-smtp-5.eutelia.it [62.94.10.165]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AB0F2C96 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:26:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ns2.biolchim.it (ip-188-188.sn2.eutelia.it [83.211.188.188]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.eutelia.it (Eutelia) with ESMTP id 3E5C6166AE4 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:54:53 +0100 (CET) Received: from soth.ventu (adsl-ull-161-224.41-151.net24.it [151.41.224.161]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.biolchim.it (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9REslwW053831 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:54:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) X-Authentication-Warning: ns2.biolchim.it: Host adsl-ull-161-224.41-151.net24.it [151.41.224.161] claimed to be soth.ventu Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.ventu [10.1.2.18]) by soth.ventu (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9REsgvp065948 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:54:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Message-ID: <526D2932.2040305@netfence.it> Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:54:42 +0100 From: Andrea Venturoli User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeNAS vs. FreeBSD? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (ns2.biolchim.it [192.168.2.203]); Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:54:50 +0100 (CET) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.74 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:26:49 -0000 On 10/27/13 15:16, C. P. Ghost wrote: > Hello, > > up until now, I'm used to run FreeBSD on SuperMicro servers > with ZFS-over-GELI. Works like a charm, and I'm comfortable > with it w.r.t. administration and so on. > > Now I'm wondering what's the difference to FreeNAS. > > Does FreeBSD endorse FreeNAS (there's no port to FreeNAS > in the ports tree, that's why I ask), or is it a completely > different and independent project of unknown quality > and reputation? Would you advise to keep using FreeBSD > or should I give FreeNAS a try? > > I know this belongs more to a FreeNAS mailing list, but I'd > like to know what FreeBSD users think and recommend. Just my 2c... I've had only one experience with FreeNAS, when I was called upon a box where files could not be deleted or moved: turned out its default settings for Samba and filesystem were arguable at the least and ACLs would prevent what could be expected to be normal behaviour. No way to fix this through FreeNAS web interface, I had to ssh into the box and do everything the FreeBSD way (chflags, chown, ecc...). So much for easy web administration. For myself, being able to use simple shell commands, I see no point over plain (and standard) FreeBSD; it might have a point for inexperienced people who are not willing to learn, but before that, it should at least work. (Disclaimer: it was an already old FreeNAS release). bye av.