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@scottalanmiller said in Which Nas OS?:
@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@scottalanmiller said in Which Nas OS?:
@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
. From everyone's opinion I should just stay with NFS and Samba?
That's all that there is. All NAS OSes are just repackaging the same NFS and Samba that everyone else is. There is really only one non-Windows provider of those services.
Oh well dang. I lost interest in this fast lol. Thanks for the info.
That's pretty much how it works. Feels like it must be this amazing, important thing. Then you learn it's nothing but Debian or FreeBSD repackaged, but not up to date, with key features removed and a goofy half-assed web GUI slapped on top of just the stuff that was already there. All negative, no positive. Seems like it must be such a good idea, but it just isn't.
Just like any NAS is then? Half-assed software on top of half-assed hardware?
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@Pete-S said in Which Nas OS?:
@scottalanmiller said in Which Nas OS?:
@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@scottalanmiller said in Which Nas OS?:
@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
. From everyone's opinion I should just stay with NFS and Samba?
That's all that there is. All NAS OSes are just repackaging the same NFS and Samba that everyone else is. There is really only one non-Windows provider of those services.
Oh well dang. I lost interest in this fast lol. Thanks for the info.
That's pretty much how it works. Feels like it must be this amazing, important thing. Then you learn it's nothing but Debian or FreeBSD repackaged, but not up to date, with key features removed and a goofy half-assed web GUI slapped on top of just the stuff that was already there. All negative, no positive. Seems like it must be such a good idea, but it just isn't.
Just like any NAS is then? Half-assed software on top of half-assed hardware?
Not quite. Many NAS are garbage, but not necessarily . The difference is the combination of custom hardware, software for that specific hardware, and support all as a single package. So while in general I'd be wary of getting a NAS, there are certainly good NAS vendors and good times to use a NAS when it's a full NAS. The same thing with a NAS OS, never do that. One is an appliance, and appliances are fine. The other is the software component of an appliance without any appliance to go with it.
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If you could manage shares from Cockpit it would be a game changer in the NAS category.
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@brandon220 said in Which Nas OS?:
If you could manage shares from Cockpit it would be a game changer in the NAS category.
You can manage samba with Webmin. Redhat pushes Cockpit of course but Webmin has a lot more functionality.
If you want a turnkey solution you could install one of the fileserver images from Turnkeylinux.
You get SMB, SFTP, NFS, WebDAV, rsync and management with Webmin.
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Not really adding anything constructive, but definitely echoing the sentiment of just building something from a minimal Linux install. I'm currently experiencing the issue of a commercial NAS making some simple things much harder than they should be. All I can put it down to is the tangle of customization and variance from general standards they do behind the scenes.
I wont be replacing them with newer versions - I'm nearly at the point of ripping their storage for dedication to a Linux VM setup to do the same duties.
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@jmoore i am totally in love with ZFS filesystem... has all the nice features , deduplication , dubblets(ditto bloks), unlimited snapshot, cloning, writable clones., raidz (many versions)
you can get it in most linux os today.. but i use eigther https://www.illumos.org/ or the free nexenta version with has a nice web interface... supports SMB V2 , NFS , ISCSI etc https://community.nexenta.com/s/
if you want to know abount ZFS here is 2 youtube videos from the creators of ZFS
part one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRoUC9P1PmA
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@jkaspersen Thanks for the info. Zfs is certainly a nice file system. I will look more into Nexenta, I have heard the name a long time but never checked out what they do.
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@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@jkaspersen Thanks for the info. Zfs is certainly a nice file system. I will look more into Nexenta, I have heard the name a long time but never checked out what they do.
Nexenta is a NasOS, just based on Solaris instead of FreeBSD or Linux. No reason to check them out, same problems as anyone else. Falls into the "never, ever use or consider or even look at" category, it makes no sense. Use the OS that they use under the hood, looking for "simple GUIs" slapped on top of simple functionality is a bad idea, especially with critical workloads like storage.
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@jkaspersen said in Which Nas OS?:
if you want to know abount ZFS here is 2 youtube videos from the creators of ZFS
I got to work with the ZFS team on the original SAM-SD. Back in 2007 when ZFS was still pretty new.
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Yeah I have read a lot about Zfs, it has some nice features. Ok yeah I didn't even know what Nexenta was. I don't need a gui. Thanks!
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@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@jkaspersen Thanks for the info. Zfs is certainly a nice file system. I will look more into Nexenta, I have heard the name a long time but never checked out what they do.
While installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, if you choose to use ZFS has your file system, you'll have the ability to Revert your system and/or user data at the GRUB menu screen.
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@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
Yeah I have read a lot about Zfs, it has some nice features. Ok yeah I didn't even know what Nexenta was. I don't need a gui. Thanks!
that why i mentioned "https://www.illumos.org/ "...which today is more fully fledged than oracles version.. crossbow is also and extra(network stack) ... + the debugging too in illumos.... the debugging tool is though a steep learning curve...
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@black3dynamite yup already running it on my laptop... very nice... but i do like ditto blocks for meta data om my M2. SSD... so i have some kind of "resilience" on my laptop...
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@jkaspersen said in Which Nas OS?:
@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
Yeah I have read a lot about Zfs, it has some nice features. Ok yeah I didn't even know what Nexenta was. I don't need a gui. Thanks!
that why i mentioned "https://www.illumos.org/ "...which today is more fully fledged than oracles version.. crossbow is also and extra(network stack) ... + the debugging too in illumos.... the debugging tool is though a steep learning curve...
Yeah, if you want the Solaris experience (which is quite good), this is the way I'd go.
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I wish someone did a really detailed performance breakdown of ZFS from Ubuntu, FreeBSD, and Illuminos. Would be super interesting.
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@scottalanmiller I need to try Illumos then because I need to be more familiar with Solaris.
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@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@scottalanmiller I need to try Illumos then because I need to be more familiar with Solaris.
and google Dtrace.... the most insane debugging tool ever...
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@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@scottalanmiller I need to try Illumos then because I need to be more familiar with Solaris.
Well not in general, Solaris is a dead animal. It was a great tool, and Illumos does a great job of keeping it available, but the Solaris path is a long dead one. You'll find no job opportunities because of it. There are way better places to spend your educational time today than researching "what once was."
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@jkaspersen said in Which Nas OS?:
@jmoore said in Which Nas OS?:
@scottalanmiller I need to try Illumos then because I need to be more familiar with Solaris.
and google Dtrace.... the most insane debugging tool ever...
I come from the world's largest Solaris shop, we had Dtrace before it released
I have the Dtrace book sitting on my shelf here, autographed, lol.
