FreeNAS is always a good OS for running a light NAS box. It manages all the drives, but runs common linux ftp daemons, so it's pretty stable... we have 2 3TB machines that backup an entire windows domain and a couple of external office machines every 2 days.
<br><br>We have never had any problems with FreeNAS, and it works flawlessly with the Ubuntu and Win workstations.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 22/09/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Daubney</b> <<a href="mailto:daubers@gmail.com">
daubers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've got a Linksys NSLU2 USB2 to Network box and it works fantastically.
<br>It does prefer your disks to be in ext3 (so it can set permissions<br>properly I think!) and it's just a stripped down linux box with samba on<br>it and a web interface.<br><br>I've never had it fail on me (though I did have to upgrade the firmware
<br>so my housemates could plug a FAT32 disk into it).<br><br>There's also lots of hacking of it gone on (search google for Unslung or<br>NSLU2). I'm very tempted to get a second one for a second set of HD's I
<br>have kicking around awaiting USB boxes.....<br><br>Can be a pain to set up a mount point for them though!<br><br>-Matt Daubney<br><br>Tom Bamford wrote:<br>> We have a 500GB NAS hard drive in a cheap enclosure. You're right, they
<br>> use a stripped down Linux kernel with Samba, ftpd etc, with a web<br>> interface for configuring it as you would a home router. I wouldn't<br>> recommend one though, they give poor performance compared to USB2 and
<br>> you're at the mercy of the frankenstein daemons running on the box. The<br>> ftp server on ours dies a horrible death when you try to push lots of<br>> small files without giving it time to breathe. Ours will only use FAT32
<br>> filesystem on the drive as well, which is annoying to say the least.<br>><br>><br>><br><br>--<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br><a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">
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