Introduction: In this blog post we are going to create a Mirrored file system using ZFS. We are going to use 5 Disks, 4 for data and 1 as a hot spare. The disks will be 200GB with a combined size of 1TB, but acutal usable space will only be 400GB. This file system has…
Tag: RAID
Open Source Network Attached Storage with FreeNAS…
The FreeNAS distribution is tailor-made for installation in a small office environment. It is an extremely low-resource network storage system that you can administer through a Web browser, but it supports high-end features like automatic backups, replication, LDAP or Active Directory authentication, and seamless file-sharing over NFS, CIFS, AFP, and even FTP and TFTP. The latest release…