FreeNAS

FreeNAS is a free Network-attached storage server, supporting: CIFS (Samba), FTP, NFS, rsync, AFP protocols, 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 LiveCD, with the configuration files stored on an MS-DOS-formatted floppy disk. There is also a VMWare disk image available.

The minimal FreeBSD 6 distribution, web interface, PHP scripts, and documentation are based on m0n0wall. FreeNAS is released under the BSD license.

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/write supported, and FAT32 read-only 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.

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]

      See also

      • CryptoNAS - NAS especially for encrypted partitions (Debian-based Live-CD, GPL)
      • NASLite
      • Nexenta - Open source OS and enterprise class NAS with kernel based ZFS
      • Openfiler

      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]

          References

          1. ^ FreeNAS, the Free Server - About. FreeNAS (2006-11-29). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
          2. ^ FreeNAS is a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) server. VMware, Inc.. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
          3. ^ Project of the Month January 2007. SourceForge, Inc.. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
          4. ^ Best of open source in storage - 2007. InfoWorld. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
          5. ^ Network Attached Storage Server with FreeNAS. Hak.5 (2006-09-05). Retrieved on 2008-02-28.
          6. ^ 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.

          
          

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