[GRLUG] Free BSD and Free NAS

[Philip J. Robar]

On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:02 PM, Roger Roelofs wrote:

> Casey,
> 
> FreeBSD + ZFS is a pretty sweet setup.  However, ZFS keeps a separate
> cache from other file systems, so it takes a fair amount of RAM to
> support multiple file system types.

People get by with less for home use, but 2 GB is generally the recommended minimum for a ZFS/OpenSolaris (and I think BSD) system. I'm using a cheap motherboard with an AMD Sempron 140 and 2GB for my EON media holding box. I'm only running CIFS, not AFP, NFS, SMB or any UPnP/DLNA services.

Phil


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