I had a thought pertaining to the original topic. On Sat, Sep 1, 2018, at 6:21 AM, Lucio De Re wrote: > The question, then, is what file service will satisfy these needs, > including access control, automatic backup as provided by default > under Plan 9, etc. I am not very fond of Linux's propensity to need > daily upgrades, but Plan 9 has quirks of its own, which I would be > hard pressed to enumerate here, but we are all aware of. > > If I could run the file server on a modern (or even an ancient) > version of NetBSD, I'd be even happier as NetBSD is the Unix flavour I > highly favour. But that is a bonus, not an essential.
Regarding the automatic backup, FreeBSD's UFS (the default filesystem) provides snapshots much like CWFS's dump. I think you can enable it for the whole filesystem with a mount option, but if not, I think it's quite easy to set up anyway. FreeBSD has ZFS too, which of course offers snapshots, but it has so many options that I found it a bit too much. It seems well documented and the interface seems reasonable for the feature set, but it's a big feature set. I have a habit of trying to understand and use too much at once, I guess.
