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Aleksandr Levchuk
Asked: 2011-05-04 18:56:38 +0800 CST

FreeNAS vs OpenIndiana in terms of speed, driver availability, robustness?

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This question related to NexentaStor vs FreeNAS and Is FreeNAS reliable?

I have been using OpenIndiana / Illumos as the OS for my self build NAS.

There is nothing much to it:

  1. Created ZFS on the FiberChannel devices
  2. Setup the local network
  3. Enabled NFS

I aslo wrote a few Bash scripts that are cronned minutly to write-down zfs get all to the shared Filesystem so that I can monitor things like disk usage, compression ratio, and dedup ratio on the client side.

I don't need any other features.

How will FreeNAS compare to OpenSolaris in terms of speed, driver availability, and robustness?

zfs truenas openindiana

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  1. Best Answer

    I use both, but all my important data resides on NexentaStor. FreeNAS is not nearly as robust as NexentaStor. FreeNAS is pretty reliable but it's just not designed for production environments the way NexentaStor is.

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