[OpenAFS] FreeNAS/ZFS and OpenAFS

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Sun, 20 May 2018 23:56:56 +0200


Il 17/05/2018 20:50, Andreas Ladanyi ha scritto:
> i want to ask you if there is an experience of a setup with
> FreeNAS/ZFS storage and OpenAFS. Do=C2=A0 i need two server boxes. One
> FreeNAS storage box and one for the OpenAFS daemons and connect them
> with iscsi ?

We use this setup and we are happy!

> Is it possible to run the OpenAFS server services in FreeNAS ? (maybe
> this could be a question for the FreeNAS guys)

FreeNAS is FreeBSD, but it has a very reduces set of packages.. Try
asking FreeNAS guys!

> Does it make sense / is it a good idea to combine ZFS and OpenAFS ?

We use ZFS volumes as block devices for iSCSI LUNs and it works very well=
.

Stefano