I'm in a similar position, so I'll be curious what kinds of responses you get. I can give you a thumbnail sketch of what I've looked at so far:
I evaluated FreeBSD, and ruled it out because I need NFSv4, and FreeBSD's NFSv4 support is still in an early stage. The NFS stability and performance just isn't there yet, in my opinion. Nexenta Core looked promising, but locked up in bonnie++ NFS testing with our RedHat nodes, so its stability is a bit of a question mark for me. I haven't gotten the opportunity to thoroughly evaluate OpenIndiana, yet. It's only available as a DVD ISO, and my test machine currently has only a CD-ROM drive. Changing that is on my to-do list, but other things keep slipping in ahead of it. For now I'm running OpenSolaris, with a locally-compiled version of Samba. (The OpenSolaris Samba package is very old and has several unpatched security holes, at this point.) -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington
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