Free Network-Attached-Storage Software [15mb]

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Free Network-Attached-Storage Software [15mb]

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I found, looking at VMWare's Appliance Market, this awesome Network-Attached-Storage operating system that happens to be free AND ONLY 15MB ONCE INSTALLED!!! This operating system just happens to be called FreeNAS, go figure, and can be found at http://www.freenas.org.

What is FreeNAS:
FreeNAS is a small (less than 32Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).

Features of FreeNAS:
FreeNAS support in the current release:
* Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS (limited read-only)
* Protocol: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, SSH, RSYNC and AFP
* Hard drive: ATA/SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire
* GPT/EFI partitionning for hard drive bigger than 2TB
* Networks cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6 (including wireless card!)
* Boot from USB key
* Hardware RAID cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6
* Software RAID 0, 1 and 5
* Management of the groups and the users (Local User authentication and Microsoft Domain)
I'm currently thinking of buying a REALLY small computer case, load it with a Mirco-ATX motherboard and a few large Hard drives I'll order and have laying around, (of-course with other components such as RAM but w/o a monitor) and hid it in my house somewhere. (Tell me if you know of an insanely small case I can use plz)

Why are you still reading this? Get up! Get those PC parts you have laying around and build yourself a nice little NAS server you can use for yourself!! (Bonus points if you can tell me how to install a SVN server on it... PLZ!)

Note: I understand the code is not at version one, but hey, I'm using it and i'm not having that much of an issue. (Only in two pages on the administration panel b/c they are not yet fully programmed; it tells you that.)
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Post by timvw »

I think most hardware nas systems are exactly the same (well, the cpu is probably less energy consuming)... But apart from that it's usually a linux or bsd os..

I found that i learned a lot from the bootdisk howto and the linux-from-scratch project when i wanted to find out what it takes to get an OS up and running (and keep it running).
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