I ran NAS4Free until I found FreeNAS wich later turned to TrueNAS. When they announced moonlighting core I switched to vanilla FreeBSD. Vanilla is blissful, nothing but text config files and scripts. :)
Reese KN4NTU On Tue, Jul 08, 2025 at 08:53:47PM +0200, Piotr K. Isajew wrote: > I want to build a NAS for my home network of OpenBSD > machines. I have a 4x8TB HDD machine to use for this > purpose. Primary role of this machine would be a dump and > pg_dump destination, but also a backup storage for some essential > files that are not part of regular backups (i.e. photos / music > archive) accessible as NFS export. > > I'd like to avoid using FreeBSD, but ZFS has some tempting > features like data corruption detection and correction and I > don't want to put a file to archive just to discover that it's > unreadable five years later. Do you use OpenBSD for your home > NAS? If yes, do you just rely on softraid to protect against data > loss or do you supplement it with something? >
