Weird subject, I know. But this is only for personal residential use. I've been running Arch on a system with a number of disks in raid for all my shared storage needs. This system also doubles as a router / firewall with Wifi, and other little things such as pxe booting. We'll recently I've been wanting to use ZFS with it more and more. So I figured I'd get opinions. Arch does have packages for ZFS, which would provide most features, just not encryption. So would I be better to use pfSense or the like off a USB and add what I need for ZFS, nfs, etc to it, or to just use FreeBSD? or is there some other suggestions.
Thanks, Paul
Well, I'd have to recommend FreeNAS at this point. FreeBSD based, full ZFS support and lots more.
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On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Paul Sierks psierks@sierkstech.net wrote:
Weird subject, I know. But this is only for personal residential use. I've been running Arch on a system with a number of disks in raid for all my shared storage needs. This system also doubles as a router / firewall with Wifi, and other little things such as pxe booting. We'll recently I've been wanting to use ZFS with it more and more. So I figured I'd get opinions. Arch does have packages for ZFS, which would provide most features, just not encryption. So would I be better to use pfSense or the like off a USB and add what I need for ZFS, nfs, etc to it, or to just use FreeBSD? or is there some other suggestions.
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On 14-04-21 06:48 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
Well, I'd have to recommend FreeNAS at this point. FreeBSD based, full ZFS support and lots more.
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On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Paul Sierks psierks@sierkstech.net wrote:
Weird subject, I know. But this is only for personal residential use. I've been running Arch on a system with a number of disks in raid for all my shared storage needs. This system also doubles as a router / firewall with Wifi, and other little things such as pxe booting. We'll recently I've been wanting to use ZFS with it more and more. So I figured I'd get opinions. Arch does have packages for ZFS, which would provide most features, just not encryption. So would I be better to use pfSense or the like off a USB and add what I need for ZFS, nfs, etc to it, or to just use FreeBSD? or is there some other suggestions.
I don't believe any "appliance"-like system exists that handles roles THAT far apart.
pfSense doesn't really do ZFS, and lacks most of FreeBSD's traditional init(8) system, so you'd be hard-pressed to add every little bit of functionality you expect to it. It does, technically, support it, but I don't think you'll find much help on the lists, they're populated mostly by devs, heavy-duty firewall users, and newbies. You'd have to install a number of packages to get the minimum functionality, and I don't think you'd be happy with the result.
FreeNAS is optimized as storage, not as a router, although I'm sure someone has written a plug-in by now that turns it into a home gateway :-). It does appear that FreeNAS offers approximately zero support for running WiFi controllers in HostAP mode, however.
I can't think of any Linux-based systems that cleanly do what you want, either...
So, yeah, you should look at running FreeBSD. Beware, it's very different from Linux. Don't try to do things the same way you would on Linux. RTFM. Seriously, RTF Handbook before you even start. Even if you're familiar with an old version of FreeBSD, read the Handbook before you even boot the install image. If you want something a little more friendly, look at PC-BSD.
Alternatively, I'd humbly suggest that there are good reasons beyond functionality to separate the firewall and file server. Sure, you *could* get it all to work, but that's a big basket to put all of your eggs into.
On 2014-04-21, 7:02 PM, Adam Thompson wrote:
On 14-04-21 06:48 PM, Kevin McGregor wrote:
Well, I'd have to recommend FreeNAS at this point. FreeBSD based, full ZFS support and lots more.
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On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:05 PM, Paul Sierks psierks@sierkstech.net wrote:
Weird subject, I know. But this is only for personal residential use. I've been running Arch on a system with a number of disks in raid for all my shared storage needs. This system also doubles as a router / firewall with Wifi, and other little things such as pxe booting. We'll recently I've been wanting to use ZFS with it more and more. So I figured I'd get opinions. Arch does have packages for ZFS, which would provide most features, just not encryption. So would I be better to use pfSense or the like off a USB and add what I need for ZFS, nfs, etc to it, or to just use FreeBSD? or is there some other suggestions.
I don't believe any "appliance"-like system exists that handles roles THAT far apart.
pfSense doesn't really do ZFS, and lacks most of FreeBSD's traditional init(8) system, so you'd be hard-pressed to add every little bit of functionality you expect to it. It does, technically, support it, but I don't think you'll find much help on the lists, they're populated mostly by devs, heavy-duty firewall users, and newbies. You'd have to install a number of packages to get the minimum functionality, and I don't think you'd be happy with the result.
FreeNAS is optimized as storage, not as a router, although I'm sure someone has written a plug-in by now that turns it into a home gateway :-). It does appear that FreeNAS offers approximately zero support for running WiFi controllers in HostAP mode, however.
I can't think of any Linux-based systems that cleanly do what you want, either...
So, yeah, you should look at running FreeBSD. Beware, it's very different from Linux. Don't try to do things the same way you would on Linux. RTFM. Seriously, RTF Handbook before you even start. Even if you're familiar with an old version of FreeBSD, read the Handbook before you even boot the install image. If you want something a little more friendly, look at PC-BSD.
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