Friday, December 04, 2020

Re: OpenBSD as a NAS

On Fri, 4 Dec 2020, Predrag Punosevac wrote:

> OpenBSD is super simple and most reliable OS I have personally dealt
> with but the storage OS, it is not. Nevertheless some people are using
> in that capacity and to paraphrase Nick's point if OpenBSD is your goto
> OS, there is nothing wrong in storing and sharing a few files of OpenBSD
> box instead of picking up and introducing another OS into your home
> environment.

I choose ZFS mainly for two reasons: (1) selfhailing, (2) it runs under
many OS and hence I am not dependent on a specific OS or hardware vendor.

Unfortunately, OpenBSD does not support ZFS and I see no alternative
till now.

Rod.

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