TECH LIBRARY

FreeNAS

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. It can be installed on Compact Flash, USB key, USB key or just run as LiveCD saving the configuration file on floppy or USB key. It will fit onto 64MB storage space. The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall.

Features

  • Protocols: CIFS (via Samba), TFTP, FTP, NFS, SSH, rsync, AFP, UPnP, BitTorrent (protocol) and iTunes.
  • Extensions (plug-ins) for: SlimServer, Xbox Media Stream Protocol.
  • 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: PATA/SATA, 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 7.

  • Boot from HDD, USB key, CompactFlash, CD-ROM + floppy disk, or USB flash.

  • Hardware RAID cards: All those supported by FreeBSD 7.2.
  • Software RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc. (using GEOM and g_raid5).
  • ZFS , the "Zettabyte File System"
  • 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.
  • VLAN support
  • Link aggregation and link failover interface
  • UPS (Uninterruptible power supply) support

External links

FreeNAS homepage: http://www.freenas.org/