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FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not deadFreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not deadPosted Dec 17, 2009 22:55 UTC (Thu) by drag (subscriber, #31333)Parent article: FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead
The way I look at it by the time CoreNAS gets off the ground and is ready to
be used, then so will BTRFS. Which will effectively render the whole 'ZFS' thing mute.
Also, I wonder how well ZFS works with just 128MB of RAM. I know that Sun
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FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 18, 2009 2:00 UTC (Fri) by linuxbox (subscriber, #6928) [Link]
No, and would be interested in seeing it. However a baseline node configuration of >1G memory seems reasonable for such a product, today.
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:07 UTC (Fri) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]
I'd imagine that you can't use ZFS on such a machine; hopefully FreeNAS's menus warn you or forbid you from trying.
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 18, 2009 8:50 UTC (Fri) by Tuxie (guest, #47191) [Link]
BtrFS is still far behind ZFS in terms of both features and stability, but I really hope that it will catch up one day. When it supports Raid-Z/Z2, file/block deduplication and having a fast SSD LFU-cache that always holds the most used blocks, I will switch in an instant.
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 18, 2009 16:49 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
Well most those things are the point behind Btrfs.
It's raid features:
Dedupe is being talked about as far as I know and is a goal of the project,
Btrfs is still about a year away, I figure. And when you make a major change
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 19, 2009 2:08 UTC (Sat) by mheily (guest, #27123) [Link]
> Also, I wonder how well ZFS works with just 128MB of RAM.
> Does anybody here have experience trying to get a couple TB worth of ZFS storage on a low-end machine?
128MB of RAM is an absurdly low amount for a NAS server. You might as well run a webserver on an Apple IIgs while you're at it. Performance will be terrible regardless of filesystem type, since you can't take advantage of prefetching and caching.
My Netgear ReadyNAS (Linux/SPARC) has 1GB of RAM and it's over a year old. Surely the hardware available now has more than 128MB of RAM.
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 20, 2009 3:22 UTC (Sun) by dougsk (guest, #25954) [Link]
>might as well run a webserver on an Apple IIgs
Although, I do agree with your sentiment, I'll see you're ][gs and raise you a ][e.
http://ld8.org:6502/index.html
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 22, 2009 23:10 UTC (Tue) by JackPowell (guest, #62639) [Link] The CoreNAS website seems to be available now and filling up with info: www.corenas.org Regards Jack
FreeNAS 0.7: powerful and not dead Posted Dec 25, 2009 17:17 UTC (Fri) by Tet (subscriber, #5433) [Link] render the whole 'ZFS' thing mute.s/mute/moot
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