[OpenIndiana-discuss] Illumos as a NAS

[Didier Carlier]

On 04 Sep 2012, at 18:37, <magnus at yonderway.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:06:06 +0100, "James Relph" <james at themacplace.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> This to some extent goes back to something I've been talking about
>> recently.  The current version of netatalk (v3) is actually excellent on
>> OI.  NetAFP added cross-protocol file locking with the native CIFS client
>> and netatalk will use ZFS xattrs to store Mac xattrs.    The actual
>> problem has turned out to be the Windows integration, because it's
> either:
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> AD issues are going to require someone tenacious, motivated, and a bit
> masochistic as it's historically been a bit of a moving target.
> 
> Low hanging fruit is to ignore the AD integration for now, make this a good
> NAS for home users without the AD integration issues resolved. Example of a
> common use case: iTunes media library. 2+ TB of music, movies, books,
> podcasts, etc. becomes more than a bit unwieldy to handle natively on a
> Mac, but Illumos is well suited to handle this workload. No AD integration
> is necessary for this use case. Local system auth is "good enough".


The use case described is handled perfectly by OSX server ($15 these days...).
It might still be a good idea but don't believe that Mac users are waiting for such a NAS without any alternatives...