Tag: zfs
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OmniOS: Installation and Basic Setup
From the CD/DVD to the working system, no extras This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here: An OmniOS ZFS Fileserver. First of all, this article must be considered always “in progress” because I will update it in…
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OmniOS: The Hardware
Choice of the components and BOM This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Requirements and Options The server I was going to build was meant to last five years and to be used both as simple…
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Why a NAS and Which One
Why storing data on a dedicated device and available alternatives This article is part of a series focused on the building and setup of a home-NAS based on ZFS and OmniOS. The index is located here. Introduction About ZFS Last year in September ZEVO was released, making finally a reasonably recent (v28) version of ZFS available under Mac OS…