FreeNAS
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| FreeNAS | |
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 Screenshot of FreeNAS webGUI |
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| Developed by | Olivier Cochard-Labbe Volker Theile |
| Stable release | 0.686.4 (May 11, 2008) [+/−] |
| OS | BSD |
| Platform | i386/IA-32 |
| Available in | English French German Italian Spanish Romanian Japanese Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional Dutch Russian |
| Genre | Computer storage |
| License | BSD license |
| Website | www.freenas.org |
FreeNAS is a free network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, iSCSI, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, and software RAID (0,1,5), with a web-based configuration interface. FreeNAS takes less than 32 MB once installed on CompactFlash, hard drive or USB flash drive.[1] FreeNAS is currently distributed as an ISO image and in source form. It is possible to run FreeNAS from a Live CD, with the configuration files stored on an MS-DOS-formatted floppy disk. There is also a VMWare disk image available.
The minimal FreeBSD 6.2 distribution, web interface, PHP scripts, and documentation are based on m0n0wall. FreeNAS is released under the BSD license.
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[edit] Features
- Protocols: CIFS (via Samba), FTP, NFS, SSH, rsync, AFP and UPnP.
- Extensions (plug-ins) for: SlimServer via SlimNas, XBMSP via CcXstream and iTunes via mt-daapd.
- rsync server, client and local sync.
- Unison support.
- iSCSI targets feature to create virtual disks.
- iSCSI initiator.
- Dynamic DNS client for: DynDNS, ZoneEdit, No-Ip, and freedns.afraid.org.
- File systems: UFS and ext2/ext3 are fully supported, NTFS read-only supported, and FAT32 read/write supported.
- Hard drive: P-ATA/S-ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB and Firewire.
- GPT/EFI partitioning for hard drives larger than 2 Terabytes.
- Networks cards: All wired and wireless cards supported by FreeBSD 6.
- Boot from HDD, USB key, CompactFlash, CD-ROM + floppy disk, or USB flash.
- Hardware RAID cards: All those supported by FreeBSD 6.2.
- Software RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc. (using GEOM).
- Disk encryption with geli.
- Management of groups and users (Local User authentication or Microsoft Domains).
- S.M.A.R.T. support.
- Remote syslogd forwarding.
- SNMP monitoring (Netgraph and MibII).
- Email log and reporting notification.
- ATA over Ethernet (AoE)
[edit] Awards
- VMware - "Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, Consumer"[2]
- sourceforge.net - Project of the Month January 2007[3]
- InfoWorld - Best of open source in storage[4]
[edit] See also
- CryptoNAS - NAS especially for encrypted partitions (Debian-based Live-CD, GPL)
- NanoNAS
- NASLite
- Nexenta - Open source OS and enterprise class NAS with kernel based ZFS
- Openfiler
[edit] External links
- FreeNAS Homepage
- FreeNAS was featured on the September 5, 2006 2x02 episode of Hak.5.[5]
- FreeNAS was featured on the March 1, 2007 episode 144 of DL.TV.[6]
- FreeNAS Tour - a series of good tutorials about using FreeNAS
[edit] References
- ^ FreeNAS, the Free Server - About. FreeNAS (2006-11-29). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ FreeNAS is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) server. VMware, Inc.. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Project of the Month January 2007. SourceForge, Inc.. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Best of open source in storage - 2007. InfoWorld. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Network Attached Storage Server with FreeNAS. Hak.5 (2006-09-05). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
- ^ Episode 144: Robert's latest HDTV roundup! Motorstorm... so shiny. DIY NAS Part 2: FreeNAS (and more). National Do Not Call Registry. CompUSA Shrinks, Using Proxies to Access Foreign Websites... more! - DL.TV. Ziff Davis Media Inc. (2007-03-01). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
