I use PC-BSD myself, not for NAS though, but if you install FreeBSD/TrueOS from the PC-BSD disc, and install X and your favorite DE (LXDE/KDE/Lumina/GNOME/XFCE/Cinnamon/Flukbox/whatever), what does PC-BSD have that FreeBSD doesn't as far as NAS functionality goes?
Not by vocation, but it was pretty easy to learn enough to get by just fine. As it happens I did "get something usable" running in not much time at all.
Did your "something usable" include jailed instances of Plex media server, DLNA server, OSX time machine service, and bittorrent client, all with web GUIs?
I've done Solaris, FBSD, and linux admin, and probably could have set all that up, eventually. I set it up, plus CIFS, and NFS shares, in an afternoon on FreeNAS.
It's the plugins for all those that really sold me on using FreeNAS instead of rolling my own.
As as FreeBSD admin I would usually agree with you, especially when ZFS is involved as FreeBSD tends to be much more up to date. I have always historically just used the latest FreeBSD when I've wanted a NAS.
However, setting up a well configured NAS with FreeBSD isn't something an end user is going to do very easily. On top of that the FreeNAS devs have put a lot of effort into configuring the various services in the most optimal way. You'll probably find an off the shelf FreeBSD that you have enabled some
FreeNAS's base is NanoBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_... [freebsd.org] describes the project. The primary benefit of using NanoBSD is that everything is RO at runtime which means you can pull power from the system at anytime.
Another vendor who uses FreeBSD is Juniper. I've read about file system corruption--not often, but it can happen--from admins when they don't perform a proper shutdown.
The derivative OSs are specifically tuned for certain functions. Like FreeNAS for file system management, pFsense for firewall & routing, PC-BSD for desktop users, and so on.
Only through hard work and perseverance can one truly suffer.
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A serious question: why use FreeNAS, a repackaged FreeBSD, when you can just use the way more up to date real thing - FreeBSD 10.1 itself?
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Are you a FreeBSD admin? If not, you have no chance in hell of getting something usable in a decent amount of time.
You do have that chance with FreeNAS.
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Not by vocation, but it was pretty easy to learn enough to get by just fine. As it happens I did "get something usable" running in not much time at all.
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I'm guessing it did not serve data stored on a ZFS pool via several protocols while still allowing for proper permissions.
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It's the plugins for all those that really sold me on using FreeNAS instead of rolling my own.
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As as FreeBSD admin I would usually agree with you, especially when ZFS is involved as FreeBSD tends to be much more up to date. I have always historically just used the latest FreeBSD when I've wanted a NAS.
However, setting up a well configured NAS with FreeBSD isn't something an end user is going to do very easily. On top of that the FreeNAS devs have put a lot of effort into configuring the various services in the most optimal way. You'll probably find an off the shelf FreeBSD that you have enabled some
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FreeNAS's base is NanoBSD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_... [freebsd.org] describes the project. The primary benefit of using NanoBSD is that everything is RO at runtime which means you can pull power from the system at anytime.
Another vendor who uses FreeBSD is Juniper. I've read about file system corruption--not often, but it can happen--from admins when they don't perform a proper shutdown.
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