FreeNAS
NAS Recovery - FreeNAS
FreeNAS is a small, but powerful implementation of FreeBSD as a network-attached storage (NAS) device. It supports a number of protocols including CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a full Web configuration interface.
FreeNAS is only about 38MB up to versions 0.686.x and more than 32 MB from version 0.69. The software can be installed on Compact Flash or USB Flash, or it can be run as LiveCD with configuration files installed on a floppy disk. A WMWare disk image is also available for FreeBSD.
Other important features:
- Support plug-ins for SlimServer via SlimNas, XBMSP via CcXstream and iTunes via mt-daapd.
- Supports iSCSI targets feature to create virtual disks.
- Supports iSCSI initiator.
- Dynamic DNS client for: DynDNS, ZoneEdit, No-Ip, and freedns.afraid.org.
- Support file systems UFS and ext2/ext3 (fully supported), NTFS (read-only supported), and FAT32 (read/write supported).
- Hard drive: P-ATA/S-ATA, SCSI, iSCSI, USB and Firewire.
- Support for all hardware RAID cards supported by FreeBSD 6.2.
- Software RAID levels: 0, 1, 5, JBOD, 5+0, 5+1, 0+1, 1+0, etc.
- Disk encryption with geli.
- Remote syslogd forwarding.
- SNMP monitoring (Netgraph and MibII).
- Email log and reporting notification.
FreeNAS has won InfoWorld award for “Best of open source in storage- 2007.” FreeNAS also received VMware award for “Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge, Consumer” and sourceforge.net award for Project of the Month January 2007.
FreeNAS is released under the BSD license. The minimal FreeBSD distribution, Web interface, PHP scripts and documentation are based on M0n0wall.
