sábado, diciembre 09, 2006

FreeNAS Network File Server

FreeNAS is a small (less than 32Mo) Operating System based on FreeBSD 6 that provide Free Network-Attached Storage services (CIFS, FTP and NFS).

Features currently supported by FreeNAS

FreeNAS support in the current release:

  • Filesystem: UFS, FAT32, EXT2/EXT3, NTFS (limited read-only)
  • Protocol: CIFS (samba) , FTP, NFS, SSH, RSYNC and AFP
  • Hard drive: ATA/SATA, SCSI, USB and Firewire
  • GPT/EFI partitionning for hard drive bigger than 2TB
  • Networks cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6 (including wireless card!)
  • Boot from USB key
  • Hardware RAID cards: All supported by FreeBSD 6
  • Software RAID 0, 1 and 5
  • Management of the groups and the users (Local User authentication and Microsoft Domain)