Installing Samba : FreeBSD Vs Linux ?

Frank Bonnet f.bonnet at esiee.fr
Mon Oct 20 01:20:56 PDT 2008


Charles Mason wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
>>> I am very interrested by feedback of "real world" samba admins running it
>>> with FreeBSD
>>> or Linux , my boss push hardly to use Linux but I would much prefer
>>> FreeBSD
>> do what your boss wants. it's his company, and it's his right to make bad
>> decision
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> 
> If he's a good boss (as the poster seem to be implying) then he will
> be asking because he hasn't made his mind up his mind completely, but
> yeah don't get fired over it :)
> 
>>From what I have seen, both are perfectly capable and since its samba
> that will be doing most of the actual work its probably doesn't matter
> that much. Of course the next question if he goes with Linux, is which
> distro. Perhaps the question should be FreeBSD v Red Hat v Ubuntu v
> SUSE v latest flavour of the month. Since keeping it patched is
> essential, these sorts of admin features do matter.
> 
> I am not sure what File System you plan on using but FreeBSD does have
> one killer feature Linux doesn't, ZFS. Linux thanks to licensing
> issues doesn't really have a solid implementation yet (although there
> have been attempts). If you need its features and can put a decent
> amount of RAM in to the file server, to good be a good choice and
> perhaps just the angle you are looking for.
> 
> To be honest I haven't used ZFS in serious production yet although I
> have been running it at home on my DIY 1.25tb NAS without any issues
> for nearly a year. Still if you have spent a lot an expensive RAID
> system disabling it and using ZFS's superior (unless you really spent
> a lot on that RAID hardware) redundancy may not go down to well.
> 
> Hope that's of some help.
> 
> Charlie M

Hello

Thanks for your answer, filesystem is not really my problem I'll
use a Netapp server for home directories.




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