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Old 02-07-2007, 06:31 PM   #1
Chris594
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NAS advice needed


hello,
I'm currently using Freenas (www.freenas.org) as a NAS server .
Freenas is based on FreeBSD so as its developing team points out it would be wise to use UFS as file system. Having switched from a windows environement to a linux one (since 5 months) I use ext3 filesystem. What I miss is file encryption though (on my NAS). The Freenas team is currently working on a GELI encryption implementation.

Here comes the part where I need your expert opinion(s):
Should I switch to a linux distro - I was thinking of SME server (www.smeserver.org) + trying to use LUKS (http://luks.endorphin.org/) (wich is now already implemented since Kernel 2.6.19) as encryption method;
OR
Should I stick with Freenas considering the fact that they are already working on an encryption method plus the fact that ZFS is almost ready for implementation in FreeBSD (http://blogs.freebsdish.org/pjd/2007...zfs-progress/).

FreeBSD/Freenas + ZFS + encryption seems to be a solid thing but I would need to format all my hard disks and that means a lot of data transfer (Terabytes)

Thanks in advanced for your input
 
  


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