NAS advice?

[j m g]

Has anyone used the freenas.org distro?  On what equipment?  Thanks.

On 2/14/06, Brian A. Seklecki <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, DAve wrote:
>
> > (I am cross posting to FreeBSD questions and Bacula Users, I will not be
> > cross posting replies)
> >
> > I've been crying for four years that we needed a decent backup system and I
> > always got put off. "It's on order", "can you resubmit an updated equipment
> > list". Yea, checks in the mail.
> >
> > So yesterday I am told that we have some equipment we got in another deal and
> > I can have it to backup my NOC. I plan to run Bacula which I already have on
> > some individual machines. I want to have Bacula clients on all my machines
> > talking to a single machine running the Bacula director, hopefully using the
> > NAS machines for storage.
> >
> > This is the equipment they threw at me, it is old, but amazingly, unused.
> >
> > One Dell Poweredge 750, 2.8ghz CPU, 1gb ram, 2 500gb SATA Maxtor
> > drives(yuk!), CERC SATA controller.
>
> Be very careful here.  I run OpenBSD with CMU RAIDFrame RAID-1 mirrors and
> FreeBSD 5.3 with GEOM/GMirror RAID-1 on this platform for embeded devices.
> It's rock-solid, except Dell phased the 750 for the 850 and went from ICH6
> to ICH7 Intel Chipsets?  Also, they're now OEM'ing Broadcom bge(4) based
> NICs instead of Intel em(4), so consider yourself lucky in a sense >:}.
> The point is that the 850 will only run the very latest FreeBSD 6.1-BETA1
> snapshots contain support for the newer chips.
>
> ~lava
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